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 gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

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

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

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

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.