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 people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.