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.

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it