What you treasure will ultimately require you die for it, Jesus is the only treasure that died for you.

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive