Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

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.

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.

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

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?"