For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.

It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.