We can experience transformation by avoiding our natural responses to pain and embracing the ways God uses pain in our lives.

Who you serve is who you will become.

A hyper-sexualized culture damages children, divides marriage, disrupts courtship, depresses women and destroys fulfilling sex.

What is the key to experiencing life change? What is the key to experiencing transformation? Granting permission.

The resurrection of Jesus teaches us that new life in Christ doesn’t merely erase the past, as if it no longer exists. It redeems the past.

Because of sin, we are divided. We are divided with God, ourselves, creation and one another. But here’s the good news: Jesus unites!

Salvation begins when we choose to tell our stories — keeping nothing hidden but baring all so that God can be all in all. Then God can transform our pain into a beauty beyond measure.

God is a God who pursues through grace. This message is from Shane J. Wood, professor of New Testament studies at Ozark Christian College and author of "Between Two Trees."

When you are dead, you don't need someone to make you better. You need someone to make you alive! 

We want to blame God for the problems in this world instead of recognizing that he was the only one in the story to provide a solution.

This idea that we long to be someone different is not something to be ashamed of or bristle against. It is a divine gift given in the garden of Eden by God himself. This longing to be something different is a divine call, guiding us back to our Creator!