Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

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

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.

If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.