Our love of the Father along with the Spirit’s testimony of his love for us combine to witness that we are God’s children.

When all else is stripped away, we can still find meaning, hope, and reason to carry on in the comfort of a God whose love continues beyond life’s regrets and earth’s boundaries.

Our Heavenly Father has been with us on every journey, and will be with us for eternity. No turn is unknown to him; no twist is a surprise to him.

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.