God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

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.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.