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

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

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.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.