The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

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.

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.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.