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Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

This culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

The great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other we see less of God.

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

Jesus has done everything for you.

We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.

When we stop narcissistically focusing on our need to get better, that is what it means to get better!

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

Into the darkness of those admissions comes the fire of new truth: though I am not good enough, Christ was good enough for me.

When we succumb to temptation, we are failing to believe in that moment that everything we need, in Christ we already have.

There's no power in the world like the power of grace.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God not by doing it right but by doing it wrong!

The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace

He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

In Christ, we are carried directly to heaven, no work necessary on our part.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

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.

As J. C. Kromsigt said, The good seed cannot flourish when it is repeatedly dug up for the purpose of examining its growth.

Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you.

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

Jesus plus nothing equals everything - and everything minus Jesus equals nothing.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness ... not our self-perceived badness.

Punishment and judgment don't create a reformed heart; they create - at best - a heart full of fear, and - at worst - a heart full of rebellion.

Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

Our performancism leads to pride when we succeed and to despair when we fail.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

The gospel doesn't just free you from what other people think about you, it frees you from what you think about yourself.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

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.

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

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway.

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.

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.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

In the world's economy, life precedes death. In God's economy, death precedes life - the cross always precedes the crown.

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

Jesus is not glorified by our "doing" things for Him. He is glorified by our resting in and receiving what He's done for us.

Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

Cheer up; you're a lot worse off than you think you are, but in Jesus you're far more loved than you ever could have imagined.

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

Believing again and again the gospel of God's free justifying grace every day is the hard work we're called to.

The hub of Christianity is not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you".

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.

There's just as much sin inside the church as outside.

People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.

Grace could not have done it's curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

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

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

What I need and long for most has come from outside of me in the person of Jesus.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

Everything is not all right. It's not helpful, but insulting, to say that it is. What we can hope for is that it will be all right one day.

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.