I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.

Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.