We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

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

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.