"The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness."
- Tullian Tchividjian
"Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him."
"The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of..."
"The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us."
"Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it"
"We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do."
"Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us."
"The hub of Christianity is not 'do something for Jesus.' The hub of Christianity is 'Jesus has done everything for you.' And my fear is that too many people, both inside and outside the church, have h..."
"Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one."
"Daily Christian living, in other words, is daily Christian dying: dying to our trivial comforts, soul-shrinking conveniences, arrogant preferences, and self-centered entitlements, and living for somet..."