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.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.