We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?

Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.

Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.