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.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.