Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.
Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.
God's timing is rarely our timing.
God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.
Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.
The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.