Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.