Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.