To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.
When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.
Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.
The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.