God alone provides our right standing with him. He did this by sending his own Son in our likeness to die for our sin.

If we refuse to receive God’s forgiveness – substituting gloom for grace – that is not holiness; it is rejection of God’s provision.

Repentance is more a depending than a doing – more a leaning on our Savior than a measuring of our tears.

God’s Spirit creates in us righteous desires, setting our minds on the things that please God and unsettling our hearts about anything that does not.

Before we were born again, God discerned our hearts to be defective, damaged by sin. Then, with his divine power and knowledge, he gave us new hearts to love and live for Jesus.

Jesus promised, “Your Father who is in heaven [will] give good things to those who ask him.” That’s not a promise to answer every whim but to give what is best for our souls.

Our failings are made known to us so that our Savior’s necessity would be confessed and his grace claimed.

We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit (1 Cor. 3:18). French mathematical genius, Blaise Pascal, spent years running from God—like so many people today. Then, Pascal encountered…

Wives truly honor husbands not by suppressing gifts but expressing them fully and selflessly for the good of a loved one.

When our trials and disappointments seem more than we can bear, we must hold to the One who holds us because he is very great and he is very good.