If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

Easter means that Christmas worked.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.