Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

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

To progress is always to begin again.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.