While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

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