Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

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!’

The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

I am God and I am coming to find you.

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.