I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

Godliness is sexy in a way that physical attraction can never be.

Our goal is transformed hearts that lead to transformed lives. Transformed lives do not lead to transformed hearts. Are you trackin' with that?

Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.