Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

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.'

In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?

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