When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

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.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

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.