Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

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.

God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

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.

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.