If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.

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

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.