Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

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.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.