You are a totally loved moral failure.

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.