God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.