God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.

Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.