Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.

One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.

It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.