The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.