Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.
It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.