The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

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

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.