Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

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

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.