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

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

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.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!