Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

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

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

Jesus has done everything for you.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

The hub of Christianity is not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you".