If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.

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?

Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.