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.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.