The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.