Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

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.

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

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

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.