A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.

The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.

Doctrine does matter.

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.