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

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

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.