Faith can result in conquering, but it can also result in something better - a cross-shaped life. God takes our losses and turns them into something beautiful.

In the Old Testament sacrificial system, people offered the best they had to God, but now in Jesus, God offers the best he has to us.

For the Christian, death is no longer something to be feared, for we have a Saviour and Mediator who has conquered death and has once for all dealt with our judgment, by the sacrifice of Himself.

Jesus is the mediator of a new and better covenant of hope - a covenant not written in a book, but instead written on our hearts.

How can a Christian person have assurance and confidence before a holy God? Jesus is able to save you to the uttermost. By his intercession, Jesus wraps us in himself. He envelopes us so that we can draw near to God.

You are not your own anchor - Jesus Christ is. So you can grow and live more deeply anchored in Him. You have been set free to grow in 'doing', without the burden of 'earning', because your high priest has gone before you and opened a way for you to enter behind the curtain.

The gospel strips us of any delusions that we can be good enough to deserve anything but judgment, but in Jesus, we have a high priest whose offering on our behalf has already been accepted by God.

The active and slicing word of God lays us bare and exposes the sin that separates us from our Holy God, but we have a faithful high priest who has bridged the gap for us. Our job is to cling to him in our time of need.

For the Christian, Jesus on the cross is the true exodus moment. In Christ, God has brought us safely through the waters of our sin and condemnation and onto redemption's shore.

In and through your own suffering, you can trust the heart of God. For He is the God who stretched out his arms on the hardwood of the cross to die for you and me - all out of pure love.