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

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by conforming their lives to whatever their worshiped deity is. But the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

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

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"