Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.