How many intellectuals do we know who will not let God into their mind because it isn’t big enough to hold Him?

It is to say that if there is more to reality than flesh and blood, then we should pray more than we do, lean into the Holy Spirit more than we have, and show more grace to everyone more than we’d like. Even when people are antagonistic toward us or annoying us beyond words. For even if they are an enemy, they are not the enemy.

Jesus is either Master or nothing. If at any point you believe “Jesus and some other thing” is a viable possibility, you’ve chosen the wide way.

tribalism, a perversion of true community,

We are raising babies and getting degrees and eating jackfruit pulled-pork sandwiches and listening to podcasts and exfoliating our pores—all while trying to serve in church and read the Bible and resist the world, the flesh, and the devil.

How we think about ourselves in light of our gifts will determine how and what we use them for. Either our glory or the Lord’s.

Our personalities aren’t in the way of our fruitfulness; sin is.

doubt often feels more practical than believing God.

It’s possible that hiding from people signals hiddenness before God.