God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

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.