We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.

The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.