If true love were only about feelings, Jesus would have been hugged to death for our redemption. Thank God for His cross this and every day.

A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there.

To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.

When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.