When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.

I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel is what you do when you fail. Do you run from Him and go clean yourself up a little bit before you come back into the throne room? Or do you approach the throne of grace with confidence? If you don't approach the throne of grace with confidence, you don't understand the gospel.

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.