Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

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.

The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.

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

The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.