There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Prayer turns theology into experience.

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.