While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them rightside up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the rightside up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.

The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.