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

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.