When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.