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Nobody is perfect. Everyone faces trials. Nobody here can claim to be a superhero, able to leap a building in a single bound and overcome the world's calamities on their own. Let's face it, we all need help sometimes.

As stores create their "back to school" sections, it's hard to believe summer is coming to an end and that our kids are old enough to be going into the next grade. And as we think about what clothes, shoes, and supplies our kids need, somewhere in the back of our minds are the hopes and dreams we have for our kids this year, along with fears and concerns that can sometimes overwhelm us.

Rather than asking, “What is God’s will for my life?” we ought to ask, “Is my life in line with God’s will?”

No matter how sinful you are, how many times you’ve made the same mistake, or even how many people you’ve hurt, the gift of salvation is for everyone who is willing to accept it. Receive it and cling to it like your life depends on it, because it does.

How much noise do you find in your life? As you're reading this, maybe you can hear a fan, a neighbor working on his deck, or the occasional dog bark or truck drive by. But even if it was completely silent in your house, would you find things to fill the quiet space (even the quiet space in your mind)? Maybe you'd scroll through social media feeds, blast music, talk to your pets. Anything to avoid the silence. But why? What am we afraid to hear in that silence?

It’s hard to wrap our minds around the grace of God. We don’t live in a world where grace is really practiced or even valued. As a result we don’t often expect to receive grace—not from the people around us and certainly not from a holy and perfect God.

Do you find yourself monopolizing conversations? Cutting others off mid-sentence? Anxiously waiting for someone to hurry up and finish their story so you can share your own? No one wants to be that guy we saw in the video. But truth be told, sometimes we are. We can get so wrapped up in our own drama, we forget that life is really supposed to be about others.

A lot of things are good in life, or at least good enough. But we live in a culture that for the most part expects better than good—we want great. Why have good when you can have great, right? Who wants a good doctor when you could have a great doctor? Why have a good car when you can have a great car? Yet when it comes to our spiritual lives and our relationship with God, we seem to compromise. Accepting good, when great is at our fingertips.