Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.

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.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.