Explanations are a substitute for trust.

The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

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.

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.