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We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

The declarations of the gospel are unavoidably tied to the obligations of the Gospel.

True Christianity is not a program of self-improvement; it's an acknowledgment that something more than self-improvement is needed.

Do you love me with an all-consuming devotion that rules out all other loves?

For it is only an appreciation of his love that can motivate genuine obedience.

Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.

But the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you should be doing. It's about God and what He has done.

Because we were made for him, any place where he isn't will never satisfy us. In

The Spirit of God can change a human heart. Only God's love in Christ can make us grow in love and delight in him.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Our children's salvation is not dependent on the strength of our faith or the shrewdness of our answers.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

We're very comfortable thinking, good parenting in, good children out.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.

Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

The only way that we can avoid the sin of idolatry is by immersing ourselves in Spirit-enlightened study of God through the Scripture.

Never pay attention to the favors or smiles of man; if [God] smiles on you, neither the smile or frown of men can affect you."5

The obvious difference between Paul and us is that Paul bragged about his weakness, and we try to hide it.

Justification is a word that simply means that our record is both "just as if we had never sinned" and also "just as if we had always obeyed.

Any obedience that isn't motivated by his great love is nothing more than penance.

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

The sinful heart is never transformed by conformity to the imperatives but only by relationship with the One who cleanses hearts.

We need assurance that there is a God who is sovereignly ruling over our journeys and will one day put everything right.

We need the encouragement, correction, and loving involvement of others who are willing to risk everything for the sake of the beauty of his bride.

God never encourages self-reliance.

Again, the resurrection is God's "Amen" to Christ's "It is finished!

The gospel is not good news to those who pride themselves on their hard work. It is infuriating news.