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

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.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.

Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.