Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.