Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.

It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

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

Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

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.