Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.

How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?

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.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.