Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

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

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.