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.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.