1. The cross not only stands as the measure of our hatred of God but also as the measure of God’s love for us.
  2. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  3. The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
  4. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  5. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  6. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  7. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  8. For Paul, the hope of the resurrection was the ultimate antidote whenever his circumstances tempted him to despair or to "lose heart."
  9. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  10. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  11. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  12. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.