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Jesus has done everything for you.
To progress is always to begin again.
Explanations are a substitute for trust.
The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.
Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.
Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.
When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.
Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.
The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.
God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.
I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.
Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."
We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.
Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.