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

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.

We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

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

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.