GOSPEL BOMBS
"The good news is you have a loving father who cares about you too much to send his son to die for you and not take care of you afterwards."
-Michael Horton
"Bad evangelism says, 'I'm right, you're wrong, and I'd love to tell you about it.'"
-Tim Keller
"My heart is so messy and dirty. My motives are not even remotely pure. The selfish stuff I've done today would make you sad. Oh, wretched man that I am...
But God has accepted me, fully! Not based on my ability to get my act together or to even improve - but because of Jesus and His work. He bore my shame and suffering and I am clothed in HIS righteousness! God loves me, He really does - no matter what I do."
-JT
"Repentance is one of the most powerful ways to make the Gospel beautiful. We owe someone an apology. Make the Gospel beautiful, say sorry!"
-van der Riet
"You can compare yourself to others and tell yourself you're okay or look into God's mirror and affirm your ongoing need for his grace."
-Paul Tripp
Me: "I can't do it God. I can't. I don't see any light. I'm not gonna make it." God: " I got this. I'll see you through. Trust me."
-Tullian Tchividjian
"Grace abounds at the low places, where we are weak, broken and helpless....grace grows amidst the ruins of sin."
-Caston
"I'm learning more and more that grace frees you to face the truth about yourself with hope and not despair."
-Tullian Tchividjian
My life is a witness to vulgar grace–a grace that amazes as it offends. A grace that pays the eager beaver who works all day long the same wages as the grinning drunk who shows up a ten till five. A grace that hikes up the robe and runs breakneck toward the prodigal reeking of sin and wraps him up and decides to throw a party no ifs, ands or buts. A grace that raises bloodshot eyes to a dying theif’s request–“Please, remember me”–and assures him, “You bet!”
-Brennan Manning
"Stop worrying that your life hasn't been good enough! Newsflash: It hasn't! But Christ's life was, and has been given to you."
-Michael Horton
"Jesus' love doesn't overlook our sin. Instead, Jesus' love ABSORBS our sin and calls us righteous!"
-Rebecca Lyons
"What keeps most of us from God is not the sin we know we have; but rather, the righteousness we think we have!"
-Nate Larkin