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

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?"

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.