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.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

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

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.

My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor