Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

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

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

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?"

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.