Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly placed us for the purpose of making Christ known and his name great. If you are a teacher, if you are a politician, if you are a businessman, if you are in agriculture, if you are in construction, if you are in technology, if you are in the arts, then you should not be saying, ‘I need to find my life’s purpose in this work,’ but rather, ‘I need to bring God’s purpose to this work.’