Being reshaped into the image of God is violent work, but the end is hope and joy.

It is only through judgment that God can protect justice, bring salvation, and restore peace.

The true God, because he is the creation of no man, cannot be controlled and will always surprise you.

God’s word is eternal and the only way to discover the path to eternal life.

God doesn’t just want today to be shaped by his word, but your whole life.

When you are at your lowest and feel unlovable, it is then that you can most clearly see God’s redeeming love.

If you belong to Jesus, you are a new creation and your sin no longer defines you.

Even though this world is not your home, you are called to seek its welfare as resident aliens.

God is a faithful and persistent God because he is far more interested in the eternal than the fleeting.

Your hope is not in how strong your faith is, but how great a savior God is.

Because God is a merciful and compassionate God, his first word need not be his last word.

God is a patient and merciful God, who only enters into judgment as a last resort and bears with our weakness (and foolishness).

God allows us to experience what he experiences in order to better understand him and to become more like him.

God wants your whole heart and life and is not fooled by empty acts of devotion.

Sometimes the only way God can teach us that we want the wrong things is by allowing us to have them.

Repentance allows us to be who God wants us to be and restores damaged relationships.

Sin is a clever enemy and destroys relationships.

Your greatest strength is that you belong to God.