God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.