The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

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

As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel.