Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more 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?"

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.