Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

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

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

Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.