Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.