Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

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.

To progress is always to begin again.

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