We must determine to hear God's Words and put them into practice.

Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.

Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.

Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction.

How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.

It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.