If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.