When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

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.

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

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.