The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.