Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’