The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.