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.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation that is narrated in the Bible. Our focus is introspective and narrow, confided to our own immediate knowledge, experience, and intuition. Trying desperately to get others, including God, to make us happy, we cannot seem to catch a glimpse of the real story that gives us a meaningful role.

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.

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.

Our weaknesses are an opportunity for God to show his strength.

The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.