Joel Rockey

“Sometimes we forget that even on our best days, we still need Jesus. Actually, the truth is that we probably need Jesus more on the days when we think we are good. That’s because on the days we think we are good, we don’t think much about needing a savior.”
― Jessica Thompson, Exploring Grace Together: 40 Devotionals for the Family

“You have no shot at experiencing real change in life if you’re habitually protecting your image, hyping your spiritual brand, and putting out the vibe that you’re a lot more unfazed by temptation than the reality you know and live would suggest.”
― Matt Chandler, Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change

“So sanctification isn’t something we lean back on, as much as it’s something we lean into. Rather than being an action only God can do, all by Himself (the way justification and adoption are), sanctification is an endeavor He undertakes in full cooperation and partnership with us. It requires us to exert what you might call “grace-driven effort”—made possible only by the merciful initiative of God, of course, and yet fully employing our human brains, brawn, and body parts as we go.”
― Matt Chandler, Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change

“We could summarize the views of our Christian heroes across the centuries with a sentence from Jonathan Edwards: “Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Family Worship