Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.

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

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry