In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

Explanations are a substitute for trust.

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.