As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

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

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.