The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

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

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.

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

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.