If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

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.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people