To progress is always to begin again.

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

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.