God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

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

Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place