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

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

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

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.