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.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.