The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

To progress is always to begin again.

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.