Although his reign spans the universe and his grace is free to all people, the nature of his grace is personalized to you.

When you pray for God to intervene and remove unwanted misery from your life, ask also to be filled completely.

It is God’s joy to replenish and nourish you, and welcome you as you run on fumes into his arms. So come, “all you who are thirsty.”

Throughout the Bible, names for Jesus reflect a person’s most urgent needs.

With this pain in his heart, Jesus doesn’t retreat into isolation, rejection, and bitterness. He is moved to love.

There, from the mouth of the suffering savior, are the sweet words of mercy for any misfit, oddball, screw-up, phony, has-been, poseur, or faker.

Passages like these reveal the radical nature of God’s judgment, and how far it is from the collective Western understanding of it.

Big expectations clear big, Volvo-sized spaces in the heart for things that cannot possibly fill them.

Adulting is hard. But a person cannot remain a child forever.

The silencing, awe-inspiring, life-giving power of Jesus is on your side. Period, end of discussion.

Unity and reunification are the fullness of the Bible.

If you think your opinion of Jesus is firm and fixed, think again.

The entire redemptive arc in the Bible is incomplete without the exact personhood and role of Jesus.

Love is the good stuff, the substance that holds everything together.

The Ford Bronco can’t please ’em all while still being the truck it was designed to be.