A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'