Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

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.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.