Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.

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

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.