Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of "How" and "Why" to the freedom of "Who?"

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.