BONUS: Sanctification's Perplexing Reality — When Progress Feels Like Setback

***For Paid Subscribers*** Why our frustratingly gradual growth in Christ may be the clearest evidence that grace is winning

For most honest Christians, becoming like Jesus Christ — what Scripture calls sanctification — can feel like a journey riddled with anticlimax. No matter how much progress we seem to make, no matter how much more loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled we become compared to last year, we rarely feel like we’r…