The gospel is good news, but not just any good news—not the good news of a pay raise, or of a good grade in school, or of a victory of your favorite sports team, or of the solution to some international problem. It is the unexpected, surprising good news that God is not angry or [...]
I believe that God is forcing us out of the prison of things that are done because they are always done that way. And in the process of leading others out of their prisons of sin, I find myself being let out of my prison of religion. And together we are learning to love Jesus [...]
Freedom! “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery,” (Galatians 5:1). Jesus Christ died to deliver you from the curse of the law—glorious forgiveness!—and He died to deliver you from the conceptions of our age—glorious freedom and independence of [...]
Somewhere along the line we got confused and we got it backwards. Somewhere, at some time, we decided that if we are good enough and keep all the rules of goodness, we would find freedom. But goodness, obedience, and holiness are the results of freedom, not the cause of it. So, to help us to [...]
