1. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.
  2. You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
  3. Jesus offers to the anxious soul the one thing it ironically wants: certainty of the good.
  4. Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
  5. Into the suffocating prison of sorrow, God sends his Breath, his Holy Spirit to help us. We may suffer, but we will not be alone.
  6. Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
  7. "Are you Republican or Democrat?” “Liberal or conservative?” “Yankees or Red Sox?” “Star Wars or Star Trek?”
  8. Years ago I picked up a used copy of Thomas Á Kempis’ Imitation of Christ at a second-hand bookstore.
  9. One of the interesting things about Paul’s writings that is not noticed enough is that Paul doesn’t really have an “application” section.
  10. A crisis of faith always occurs when we begin to believe that God has betrayed us.