The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.
I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.