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

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

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"