I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

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

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

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

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.