While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.