Jesus has done everything for you.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of "How" and "Why" to the freedom of "Who?"

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

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

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.