Sublime

Never did he allow the meannesses of human respect to degrade his Christian dignity.

Forget greatness; seek littleness. Trust more; strut less. Make lots of requests, and accept all the gifts. Come to God the way a child comes to Daddy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky caught the shock and scandal of the gospel of grace when he wrote: At the last Judgment Christ will say to us, “Come, you also! Come, drunkards! Come, weaklings! Come, children of shame!” And he will say to us: “Vile beings, you who are in the image of the beast and bear his mark, but come all the same, you as well.” And the wise

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

This is why Jesus Christ, in his life on earth, always stressed that the evil-doer is nearer to God than the self-righteous, pretending-to-be-good person.

My dearest Father Gary, I cannot adequately put into words what your friendship has meant to me over the past few years. You have been my steady rock in the raging storm. You’ve been the father to me that I always wished for when I was growing up. You’ve given so much, and I know you’ve got so much more to give. Your ministry has just begun. When t

Servants base their identity in Christ. Because they remember they are loved and accepted by grace, servants don’t have to prove their worth.

The God revealed in Jesus Christ is the definition of love.