Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.