The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.

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

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart