The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

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

If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.

Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.