The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

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

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.