What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.

Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.