What really matters is life – having life, enjoying life, just being alive both now and forever – and that life comes only by faith.

The blessing of Abraham, which is the promise of God’s Spirit comes only by faith in Christ, which is necessarily wed to the cross of Christ, where He bore the Law’s curse for us. Hallelujah!

Justification by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Mosaic Law is the only doctrine which can bring the church true and lasting unity.

The authority of the gospel of grace is marked by its divine revelation and apostolic attestation; not according to man.

Adherence to the pure gospel of justification by faith alone requires rejection of anyone teaching a message which perverts or contradicts that pure gospel.

Only the gospel of grace which teaches justification by faith alone is the real gospel, for only this gospel transforms, producing real gospel life.

The justice of God demands that the Messiah who fully bore God’s eternal wrath for his people in the day of his redemption must fully vent that same eternal wrath on the wicked in the day of his vengeance.

The finished work of Christ on the cross to redeem the world from sin was ultimately validated by His resurrection three days later, which ultimately secured the resurrection of the New Jerusalem.

Good Friday 2010

God’s promise to save His wretched people from their sin through the provision of His Messianic Servant is grounded in and assured by His awesome power, displayed in the past through creation and the Exodus.