God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

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