Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.