God loved, and kept loving, sinful people to show us that his grace is not dependent on our performance.

Resting on God’s grace does not relieve our obligation to honor him but powerfully stimulates our love to live for God’s glory and in our freedom.

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

When we discover the grace that the God of all power and authority sacrificially extended to His loved ones, then we begin to discern our mission to reflect that same heart to our loved ones.

In discipline, the divine hand is simply turning us back to the arms that embrace and protect us eternally.

Hearts open to the message of Scripture soon recognize that God never commends nor commands selfishness.

Jesus does not love any child, young or old, because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

We tend to see our lives only in the context of our daily goals and concerns, but God is weaving our lives – the good and the bad, the easy and the hard – into his infinitely good and lasting plan.

We pray in Jesus’ name because of the assurance that the Father will give us whatever we ask that most honors Jesus’ name.

Does anyone who has been “set free” from slavery really want to go back to it?