To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.