Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.