The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

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.

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.