The hub of Christianity is not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you".

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

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