Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

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.

As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'