On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

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

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.

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

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.