problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.

You become like what you worship

God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.