There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

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.

Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

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