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

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.