TOPIC INDEXJustification (8)
  1. It seems to me that our greatest task is not that of seeking skills and methods whereby we can inject power into the gospel, but simply to beware lest we obscure the power that the gospel is
  2. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  3. It’s God’s power that we are dealing with here that is made perfect in weakness, not ours. God’s power is made perfect in the weakness of the cross.
  4. 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.
  5. Maybe for the first time you can begin to receive creation as a gift, a sheer gift from God’s hands. And who knows what might happen in the power of this grace? All possibilities are open.
  6. There is no justification except by faith alone. The radical forgiveness itself puts the old to death and calls forth the new.
  7. The law does not end sin, does not make new beings, it only makes matters worse.