This weekend we heard a lot of great principles at our Marriage + Singles Seminar. Principles are invaluable. We need godly instruction and wisdom, but we must be careful that we don't turn principles into a checklist for performance. Principles are not Jesus. They don't tame sin, and they don't make us righteous. It is only through the New Covenant gospel of grace—Christ's finished work on the cross—that our hearts are changed, an end is brought to sin, and we are made righteous in Him.