Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

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

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.