Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.

When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.

Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace.