The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.