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

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

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

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.