The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

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