If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre.” [Running Scared, p. 111]

When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness. . . . The wilderness is the place where God...

The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]

Speaker says psychology has commandeered “everything hard” and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological

Psychiatric diagnoses are considered to be technical and bounded; you are either in or out. In contrast, a biblical perspective puts many interpersonal differences on a continuum: people may have more or less of something....