You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God's forgiveness even more.

If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.

God saves. Specifically he will save his people from their sins.

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

We might question God's actions, decisions, or declarations. But we can never, ever question his zany, stunning, unquenchable affection.