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

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

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

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

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.