For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.