Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.

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

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.