...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.

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

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.