A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

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

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

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