Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.

Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.

Christianity is Christ because there isn't anything else. There is no atonement that somehow can be detached from who the Lord Jesus is. There is no grace that can be attached to you transferred from Him. All there is, is Christ and your soul.

Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.