Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
We need you to be you. We don’t need a second anybody. We need the first you.
We are not only working on our game, we are working on ourselves.
To name is to order, to participate, to partner with God in taking the world somewhere.
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
Great artists know that it isn’t just about what you add; sometimes the most important work is knowing what to take away. Removing clutter, excess, all the superfluous elements—and finding out in the...
Grace is when you aren’t striving or controlling or trying to change or manipulate or make something happen. Grace is when you find yourself carried along, when all that’s left to do is receive. Grace...
Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it.
Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.
You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.
When you’re fighting, it’s absolutely crucial to keep remembering that they’re trying to figure it out just like you are.
When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words th...
When a leader comes along who eliminates the tension and dodges the paradox and neatly and precisely explains who the enemies are and gives black-and-white answers to questions, leaving little room fo...
What the gospel does is confront our version of our story with God’s version of our story. It is a brutally honest, exuberantly liberating story, and it is good news. It begins with the sure and certa...
What does Jesus mean when he uses that word heaven? ___________________ First, there was tremendous respect in the culture that Jesus lived in for the name of God—so much so that many wouldn’t even sa...
There is hell now, and there is hell later, and Jesus teaches us to take both seriously.
There are more atoms than molecules, but a molecule is more complex than an atom. There are more molecules than cells, but a cell is more complex than a molecule. And so on up the hierarchy it goes, w...
The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll return to again and again is: They speak to our human experience.
The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the t...
The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder.17