All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

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

If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.