The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.