Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's image and endanger an entire generation's understanding of Jesus.

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

The common denominator is that we all need help.

I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick.

Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back