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

Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.