“Pastor Louie Giglio says that the heavenly Father is not a perfected version of our earthly parents. He is the perfect Father. In other words, God is not a better version of your good parent or your not-so-good parent. God is perfectly good, perfectly whole, and perfectly loving, and when we become His children, we […]
“Finding the new life of love, joy, and peace the Bible promises requires less obsession and more devotion. I can’t possibly overstate that truth. . . . obsessions cannot do what we want them to; they can’t deliver us from the old life and move us into the new. We have to put God at […]
” . . . the new life is not a destination, a place you can get to and say, ‘I’m finally here.’ . . . The new life is really less of one thing and more of another. Even in the face of our natural predisposition to sin, we can make progress — get better […]
“But when we reach the end of our chase, weighed down by our loneliness, exhaustion, or shame, Jesus doesn’t scold or shame us. Rather, he sits by the well and says, ‘I can . . . give you a new kind of love, joy, peace, and happiness that you can’t get from any other person […]
” . . .. until heaven Christians will always face a certain amount of tension between the old and the new lives. The reality is there’s a constant tug-of-war between our sinful nature and God’s Spirit. We get pulled between these forces all day long, so it’s not uncommon to land in the middle.”- Bob […]