If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that’s your real king.
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.
Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You’ll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.
The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows.
Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.
Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.
Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He’s either all of your righteousness or none.
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.