If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.

How can I trust that the Bible is reliable?

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange