The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace