Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.

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

If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

To change the world takes time

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

Man doth not live by bread only.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.

Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.