God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.