The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.

The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

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.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.