If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

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

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.