The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.