The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.

Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.