Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.

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

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.