We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.