It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

"How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.