“Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.”

“My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.”

“It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect and my emotions. The Puritan Jonathan Edwards likened his reawakening to the gospel to a man who had known, in his head, that honey was sweet, but for the first time had that sweetness burst alive in his mouth.”

“In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.”

“Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.”

“Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts”

“When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.”