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

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

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.

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