Christ came as the humble king, riding on a donkey, to mediate an eternal peace between God and man, for those who place their faith in Christ, and bow the knee to his kingship.

The mediatorial work of Christ in establishing the new covenant was accomplished via his offices of prophet, priest, and king.

Christ's resurrection is not just definitive proof for what has happened in the past, but is the guarantee for what will happen in the future.

This historical, bodily resurrection of Christ is absolutely essential to Christianity. Without it, there is no Christianity.

The difference between loving Christ much and loving him little is not the difference between being forgiven much or being forgiven little. It is the difference between understanding the depth and magnitude of our sin and God's amazing grace and not.

The Scriptures are not just a record of what God has spoken; the Scriptures are God speaking.

The gospel is the 'sine qua non' of Christianity. That is, it is the thing without which there is no Christianity. We can be wrong about a lot of different biblical truths and still be inside the covenant community, but the gospel is not one of them. Get the gospel wrong and we lose everything.

The gospel is all-encompassing. Not that the gospel is all that is needed, but it is the glue which binds everything together, the thread which weaves together all other doctrines, the doctrine upon which the church stands or falls.