God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

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.

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

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.