If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.