Preachers, Give Your People a Promise

Only a grace-centric, gospel-trusting church could produce a John Newton

Guilt gets terrible press. And there are few pejoratives as distasteful to us today as “judgmental.” But sometimes we need to be reminded that our ideal self does not actually exist and the one that does exist, the one who just royally effed up a situation in his or her life for no rational or discernible reason (#sin), desperately needs to be told some…