The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.