Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

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.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

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

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 law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.