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.

I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

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

My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.