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

Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

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.

Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.