The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

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.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.