Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

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

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.