When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

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

We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.