True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.

At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.

The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.

Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?