Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

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

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.