Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

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.

Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.