We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.

The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.