Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

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.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.