Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.