It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

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The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.