Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.