Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

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 product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.