When we block the flow of God’s love into our hearts, we have a love deficit and a big problem. Is this deficit behind the character issues that plague us?

Our thoughts, choices and reactions to our lives permanently chisel grooves and lines into our faces and bodies. Like a journal of our journey, our path is revealed in our appearance.

Jesus doesn’t shrink from my fallen, sinful condition. Quite the contrary, He longs to be invited inside, in order to eradicate it.

Is God going to judge America, or has judgment of America already begun? The first sign of a nation's judgment is when He turns them over to their desires.

It's not what happens to us but what we do with it, that makes us unclean. The thing that separates you from God is how you respond to the wounds in your life.

The Holy Spirit reveals truth, and the truth about humanity and salvation and the new creation and prayer and the Christian life are the same – always!

If unforgiveness of others keeps me tethered to them, then unforgiveness of myself ensnares just as completely. There must be forgiveness for me, BY me.

God is opening my eyes to the freedom He delights to give me in my responsibilities—most especially in the responsibility I have to own my choices.

“Do not rely on your own insight or understanding.” How much of my unbelief in Jesus Christ stems from an idolatrous belief born of my own understanding?

We reap what we sow, both the death and the Life. So what are we sowing right now? Are we sowing the seeds that BELIEVE or the seeds that doubt?

I've seen the devastating effects of failing to believe that our Father makes all things new. Is there a place in your life where you're standing still too?

I used to have a hard time loving the lonely in a way that was godly, but now it’s easier. God taught me how to love the lonely with His love, not mine.