The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

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

I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.