The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.