Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.

These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.