The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin and bear it' in the midst of hardship. No, the good news is that God is hanging on to you, and in the end, when all is said and done, the power of God will triumph over every pain and loss.