The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

To progress is always to begin again.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.