Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.