These stories weave through the Bible and make it less of a book and more of a tapestry. The threads continue into the lives of every Christ-follower, even today.

The best purpose-built cars don’t need to give up their greatest attributes during their transformation. If anything, their worst parts are upgraded or cut out entirely.

An attitude of reflection and contentment can motivate you at any time.

God doesn’t rescue you out of obligation, compulsion, or duty. He does it because he delights in you.

Throughout the Bible, names for Jesus reflect a person’s most urgent needs.

You probably believe that God knows what you do. Perhaps now you see that God knows why: he designed you.

With this pain in his heart, Jesus doesn’t retreat into isolation, rejection, and bitterness. He is moved to love.

Joining is a great way to learn about perfection – not from a perfect car or a group of people who seem perfect, but the perfection of Jesus.

That’s God behind you. He’s not following you to cuff you and take you downtown but to love you.

You don’t have to be a perfect person to have a perfect identity. Your identity is found within the perfection of Jesus, and the perfection and identity of Jesus are within you.

Every single day, God is carrying you along his highway straight toward him.

The central encouragement in this passage is really a mandate, and it’s universal: continue.

There, from the mouth of the suffering savior, are the sweet words of mercy for any misfit, oddball, screw-up, phony, has-been, poseur, or faker.

Passages like these reveal the radical nature of God’s judgment, and how far it is from the collective Western understanding of it.

While you wait, God works. While you’re anxious, God acts. While you’re doubting, God is already delivering.

But how does an imperfect, incomplete, feeble human imitate an almighty God?

Tires can do a lot for a person. But love can do even more.

Perhaps Leah’s story can inspire anyone else who feels forgotten or neglected by fickle, easily distracted humans.

If you find yourself in the position to build something, you can follow Solomon’s lead and build it after God’s design.

The thing you want (and need) is available to you, but it seems “futile,” and maybe you wonder if you gain anything by following God.