Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.

We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.