Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.