Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone.
It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.
Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.
Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back
Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.