Jesus runs headlong into such complex situations, so we must follow him there, even if it gets uncomfortable. 

Consecration is participation in the divine-human intermingled exchange who is Jesus himself.

We are either mastered by sin or mastered by grace.

The Bible thinks of perfect not as flawlessness but as fullness—the fullness of Jesus by the Holy Spirit.

We can no longer consider Jesus to be merely an eternal life insurance policy. He must become the source and substance of a transformed life. 

Baptism is a literal living participation in the real, physical, and embodied deliverance of Jesus Christ from sin and death into life and love.

It is an incredible freedom to move from “change them” prayers to “change me” prayers.

The glory of the gospel—Jesus Christ—is the way he reverses our course and leads us from the broken story of Adam into the grand story of grace.