You can choose the pain of obeying your parents today or face the pain of the consequences later. You can live within your means today, or choose the pain of debt tomorrow. You can study, or experience the pain of retaking the class. I am choosing the pain of discipline over the pain of regret. Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Names become a part of our identity– a way of describing to others who we are. The Bible gives us a larger and clearer picture of who Jesus is through the rich variety of names attributed to him throughout the Old & New Testaments. He is known as Lord & Savior, Son of God, and Son of Man. To the Jews, he was the long-awaited Messiah or Christ. He is the Word made flesh, the Good Shepherd, the Great High Priest, Immanuel, or “God with us.” Yet perhaps the most meaningful term for us is the Lamb of God because it was his sacrifice of himself on the cross that is our salvation!