“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” — 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV) Paul asked three times for the thorn to be removed. God's answer wasn't a fix. It was a reframe: My grace is sufficient, My power is made perfect in weakness. That's rarely the answer we're actually …

“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” — Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) Confidence in what we hope for, assurance about what we don't see — that's a strange kind of certainty by modern standards. We're used to trusting only what we can verify, measure, photograph. Faith …

Bought Back, Not Just Forgiven "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace." — Ephesians 1:7 (NIV) Forgiveness and redemption get used like synonyms, but they're not quite the same transaction. Forgiveness cancels a debt. Redemption buys something back that had been sold, …