Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

God knows what it's like to lose a son.

I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.

God has a purpose behind every problem.