The Truth about Us: The Very Good News about How Very Bad We Are
“No one is good—except God alone” (Luke 18:19).
Preston M. Sprinkle • The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
These truths of holiness by grace teach us that, as counterintuitive as it may seem, nothing more powerfully compels holy living than consistent adulation of the mercy of God in Christ.
Bryan Chapell • Christ-Centered Preaching
In practical terms, you need to come to God with the parts you hate most about yourself, not just the parts you love—the struggles you wish you didn’t have, the parts of your story and life and mind you wish weren’t there.
Jon Tyson • Fighting Shadows
Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.”
Lee Strobel • The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives (Case for ... Series)
And we can put the stupid fig leaves away. They aren’t helping. The gospel is fuel for courageous unself-consciousness. And this is what people really need from us! The freedom to drop the pretense, to be radically un-self-conscious—not un-self-reflective, by any means, but un-self-concerned—and so liberated by God’s approval of us in Christ Jesus
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
The good news is that as we repent, we move more deeply into the only story of change that is true: God’s story of change for the entire universe, including people who are poor … and ourselves.