The marker of those who understand the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, when they stumble and fall, when they screw up, they run to God and not from him, because they clearly understand that their acceptance before God is not predicated upon their behavior but on the righteous life of Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death.

The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.

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

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

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

We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.