1. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  2. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  3. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  4. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  5. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  6. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  7. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  8. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  9. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  10. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  11. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  12. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.