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

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)

Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.