In God’s graceful timing, he always answers faithful prayers as he knows is best.

Our Lord has already declared what he wants: “forgive as God in Christ forgave you.”

The charge to put God’s priorities above our own often can reduce our checklist to one item: Does this church help me serve Jesus better?

When the Holy Spirit is active among us, he not only convicts our hearts of sin, but makes us willing to confess our sin to God and to one another.

Our churches, our families, our neighborhoods, fellowships, and the people in all of these become more precious to us as we invest in them, and Jesus shine brighter because we do.

We don’t love others because they deserve it, but because Christ deserves our obedience.

If you have come to the end of yourself, it’s time to pray “that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

So, whoever confesses, “I got nothing but Jesus,” gets heaven. 

When you recognize God’s discipline, trust it to be an expression of fatherly care that would be absent without his grace.

We must declare our trust in God by entrusting our lives and our eternities to him.