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

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.