He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.