regeneration

True self-acceptance is a key to change. A skewed self-acceptance refuses change.

The word ‘screen’ used to denote a partition. Today it’s where we search for two of our heart’s deepest needs.

Where we downplay the central role of the body in human experience, we downplay the role of the body in our own relationships with God.

The specific sins from which we’re saved can become holy embers from which His light burns brightest in our lives. How can men and women in darkness know the Savior He is unless they hear of the strong, dark giants from which He has saved us?

I prefer to say I’m “on a journey.” But sometimes, that sounds a bit too certain, like I know where I started, where I am, and where and when I’ll . . .

We long for one who sees, one for whom our condition matters not because it defines us, but because it distorts who He knows us to be. And One who can make what He sees true in our lives.

You would think me bitter if I told you I would gladly trade places with him, the man. Although they’d stormed in on both of us, it was me they . . .

Sin doesn’t grant you permission to do what you want. It gives you no option but to do what it wants. And worse yet, to believe the want has come from you.

Have you ever watched a film where, right near the end, you find out a new piece of information that turns all you thought you knew about the plot and . . .

Too many people have the unfortunate problem of managing quite nicely. Quite nicely is nice when all things are well, but when there’s a secret moral failure, a destructive pattern, . . .