Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

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.

Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.