The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers, doctors, lawyers, artists and entertainers. Some people are cool and some people are geeky. I look around at my friends and I think, only the gospel has the power to put together a friendship like this.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

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.

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