When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

The hub of Christianity is not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you".