1. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  2. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  3. 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.
  4. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  5. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  6. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  7. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  8. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  9. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  10. 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.
  11. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  12. We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.