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

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers, doctors, lawyers, artists and entertainers. Some people are cool and some people are geeky. I look around at my friends and I think, only the gospel has the power to put together a friendship like this.