There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.

Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.