As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.