We, with all of our sin, weakness, and failures are welcome to do what should blow our minds. We are not only tolerated by God at a distance; no, we are welcomed into intimate personal communion with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the creator, the sovereign, the Savior. We, as unholy as we are, are told to go with confidence into his holy presence.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.

There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus