I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.

Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.