Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

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.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.