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

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.