Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.

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

Easter means that Christmas worked.

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.