Christ is preeminent in ministry when God’s people faithfully pray for both the mission and the message of gospel proclamation. Ministry glorifies Christ when it depends on God’s sovereign power, centers on the faithful exposition of Scripture, and seeks clarity and boldness in proclaiming the gospel.

We keep Christ preeminent in prayer when we pray persistently, perceptively, and praisefully.

The Bible plants a new ethic for the people of God: human dignity, justice, equality, and accountability to Christ. These ultimately disarm and destroy slavery. Colossians 4:1 calls those in authority to lead like Christ by treating those under them justly and fairly. When these principles are lived out, slavery becomes morally unrecognizable and is undone as hearts, relationships, and societies are transformed by Christ.

Jesus is to be preeminent in our work, so that all labor—whether done by slaves in the ancient world or employees today—is an act of worship performed in reverent fear of the Lord, and not merely to please people.

Salvation has always been by grace alone through faith alone. Reliance on the Law only brings a curse. The good news is that Christ became a curse for us on the cross, fully redeeming believers from condemnation .

Although all people are conceived with a sin nature, God in sovereign grace receives infants and the mentally disabled into heaven when they die. Grieving parents have real, scriptural comfort: their children are with the Lord, and God’s redemptive purposes are not thwarted by death.

Wherever we go—whether in joy, suffering, light, or darkness—God is already there, leading and holding His people. While God’s omnipresence is comforting and life-giving for believers, it is also convicting, reminding us that there is no hiding from a holy God and calling us to repentance, trust, and faith grounded in truth rather than feelings.

When our souls are crushed—whether by suffering, sin, or discouragement—the only true restoration and life come from God through his word. Scripture revives, restores, and enlarges the heart as God grants understanding and calls us to meditate deeply on His truth.

God's knowledge of all things is convicting and comforting.

The world’s brokenness and humanity’s fallenness finds its only true restoration in Jesus Christ. Biblical peace is wholeness, reconciliation, and flourishing—peace in the world, peace with God, peace with others, and peace within—secured through Christ’s righteous reign and sacrificial death on the cross.