Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.