Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

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

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

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.