Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.