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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.
Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.
The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"
The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.
Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.
Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."
The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.
A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'
Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.
If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.
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 engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.
Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.
A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.
Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.
Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.