1. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  2. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  3. The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.
  4. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  5. For Japan’s highly secularized elite, alienated by collapsing opportunity and the materialistic void left behind, Bach’s music was a balm.
  6. The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
  7. A few of our staff members have shared what they are looking forward to reading in the coming months below. If you’re looking for titles to fill your own summer reading list, we hope this list is a helpful resource.
  8. Jesus does not put us on trial and make us pay for our own sin, but he, himself, is put on trial in our place.
  9. We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
  10. Armed with great analogies, airtight logic, and razor sharp wit, Lewis keeps you spellbound from one chapter to another as you find yourself going “further up and further in.”
  11. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  12. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.