Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.

To progress is always to begin again.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.