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

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

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.

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.