The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.

Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.