Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.