“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”

Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.