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.

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.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

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

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.