The beautiful thing about our faith in Christ is that we don’t have to do anything to earn it. He already paid for it all on the cross. It’s a free gift. I’m so thankful.

Grateful to Pastor Zack Carden for an invitation to preach on Sunday at Marietta Community Church (Atlanta area) and for such a warm welcome from our ECO friends. ❤️🙏

Bear not a single care thyself, One is too much for thee. The work is mine and mine alone. Thy work is to rest in me. - Hudson Taylor’s meditation on the heart of Christ for weary souls

A happy happy happy 22nd birthday to this precious soul. We love you to the moon and back, Ellie! ❤️🎉🕺😘💌✝️

I can't believe I missed THIS in the Bible

Wherever people carry regrets, have made mistakes, and have hit bottom, Jesus shows up not to shame and scold but to recruit. LINK: scottsauls.substack.com/p/hope-for-eve…

The most inspiring people are those who bear uncommon burdens with uncommon joy. This weekend, it was an honor to pastor families from the @joniandfriends community, who, in truth, give so much more than they receive simply by being their faithful, beautiful selves.

If you’re falling off a cliff, strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch. Salvation is not finally based on the strength of your faith, but on the object of your faith.

This showed up on my feed recently. It is sage advice worth fighting for to make reality. But the real fight isn't "out there." It is, rather, within ourselves. As Lewis Smedes once wrote, to forgive (or apologize or forget, as the case may be) is to set a prisoner free and

Codependency is an individual disease as well as a systemic disease that tarnishes families, businesses, communities, societies, and political strategies. Codependency values short-term appeasement over long-term redemption, keeping the peace over peacemaking, and spinning

I love how Jesus related to damaged and demoralized people. Don’t you? Link: scottsauls.substack.com/p/we-are-all-d…

#BookDeals Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making of Better Humans by Scott Sauls #paperback: $3.97 "This wonderful, hope-infused book reminds us how God takes hard and ugly experiences and uses them to craft tenderhearted

Loving your enemies may not change your enemies, but it will keep your enemies from changing you.

An unborn child appears to clap along to her parents' singing. These children are just as human inside the womb as they are out.

LINK: scottsauls.substack.com/p/speaking-wor…

Looking forward to being part of this! @peninsulabible instagram.com/reel/C_ymecoKR…