If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life - more than money, romance, family, health, fame - and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the world can offer, we'll gladly let everything else go to possess Him.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.