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.

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

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

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

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

You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him.