The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

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

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"