People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.