Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.