The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel is what you do when you fail. Do you run from Him and go clean yourself up a little bit before you come back into the throne room? Or do you approach the throne of grace with confidence? If you don't approach the throne of grace with confidence, you don't understand the gospel.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.