Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. 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.

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

You are under-qualified for the job of God.