When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

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

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.

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.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.