What I'm most deeply grateful for is that God's love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride on our resolve but on Jesus' resolve for us. The gospel is the good news announcing Jesus' infallible devotion to us despite our inconsistent devotion to Him. The gospel is not a command to hang on to Jesus; it's a promise that no matter how weak and unsuccessful our faith and efforts may be, God is always holding on to us.

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.

The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.

Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.