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A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak; because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose; because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one; because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary; because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.

Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.

Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

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

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

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.

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

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

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or that others construct for you. Rather, He is interested in you, the you who suffers, the you who inflicts suffering on others, the you who hides, the you who has bad days (and good ones). And He meets you where you are.

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative.

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.

God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

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.

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

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