Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

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

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.