Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.

God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.

Christianity isn't all that complicated ... it's Jesus.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.