People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Jesus has done everything for you.

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.