In Christ, there is a certain and everlasting hope that is greater than any circumstance we face, whether in death or in life.

Since our sovereign God is never in a state of panic, then God’s people who reflect God's character shouldn't be either.

The church is made up of followers of Jesus that are growing, excelling, and hungry for

more of Him. They are striving for holiness, separateness, and fleeing assimilation into

worldliness in the categories of sexuality, work, and their beliefs about death and dying.

Biblical leaders invest unrecoverable resources in those they lead, and they stand on unchangeable convictions as they lead.

The Biblical Church will be receptive, attentive, and responsive to the word of God, and in standing in God’s Grace alone will humbly enduring persecution will provoke the privileged.

As Paul gives a defense for his leadership, he helps prepare us to build and defend such leaders by giving us a Biblical picture of healthy leadership grounded in our view of the family.

As Paul gives a defense for his leadership, he helps prepare us to build

and defend such leaders by giving us a Biblical picture of healthy leadership

grounded in our theological convictions.

Christ has done something for us that, when our eyes are opened to it and we

trust in it completely, causes us to begin to lead others in imitating him as we

throw off all forms of false rescue.

The Gospel comes by the power of the Holy Spirit with full confidence of our sin and sinfulness and our complete pardon in Christ.

The Good News of who Jesus is and what He has done confronts us with power and calls us to revel in the God who saves us.