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

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.