if you're God's child, your life is never, ever out of control.

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead. When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give. This means you begin to see yourself as more righteous, strong, and wise than you actually are, and in so doing, you set yourself up for trouble.

Your leadership community is in trouble if your leaders are more excited about a strategic planning meeting than a prayer meeting.

You will never be left to the limited range of your own resources.

What will it be for you today—the discontent of doubt and fear or the contentment of peace and rest?

hope is nothing less than a confident expectation of a guaranteed result.

We all need to be reminded again and again of what God has declared are the most important things in life.

truth like this is revelation that completely changes the posture of my life.

His commands are not competing demands that flow out of competing value systems. They are a single fabric of threads that, woven together, define what it means to live in a way that is good, right, beautiful, and pleasing to him.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

The war that rages in all our hearts is a war between the awe of God and the awe of self. The war really does somehow turn all of us into glory thieves. Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

If God is sovereign and his rule is complete, wise, righteous, and good, why would you fear?