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.

Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

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

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.