Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.

When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.