Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.