Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavors, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.