Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

The hub of Christianity is not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you".

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.

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.