If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

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

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.