Explanations are a substitute for trust.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.