I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

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

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.