Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

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

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

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Explanations are a substitute for trust.