The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

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

It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.