We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

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

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.

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.