The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.

The marker of those who understand the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, when they stumble and fall, when they screw up, they run to God and not from him, because they clearly understand that their acceptance before God is not predicated upon their behavior but on the righteous life of Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death.

Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn’t need a makeover.

If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.