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

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

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.

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

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

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.