Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

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