Christ is the beating heart of Christian faith and its only object.
This is the basic argument of To Gaze upon God: that we who now see as if behind a veil will one day enjoy the unveiled splendor of God himself, who will dwell with us forever.
We love hearing about Jesus, but we also love hearing about how much effort we need to exert to truly pull off this whole “Christian life” thing.

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Christians have long enjoyed an absurd love affair with white-washing biblical saints.
The Gospel is simple to confess. That is, we are justified by faith alone, through Christ alone, without the works of the Law.
Our complaints about God's grace always sound the same: "It was good to see him in church with his son this morning.
Why confess sin? Is it so we can get rewarded by God? A little extra grace or material good for our troubles, maybe.
The author, Flannery O'Connor, said, "All I can say about my love of God is, Lord help me in my lack of it."
All the verbs of our salvation are passive. God calls and gathers people to him through his Gospel.
It's easy to become habituated to sin. It comes naturally, after all. The power and pressure of sin on us, from conception to the grave, is immense.
If we get past Sunday School moralizing what do we discover in the Old Testament?
In Martin Luther's Small Catechism he borrows a line from St. Augustine about what defines a "god."
I’ve always been more at home in the Old Testament than in the New Testament.
In elementary school, children are taught that America was a destination for Christians in search of religious freedom. But that’s not the truth.
Whenever I read the Genesis account of Abraham, I’m more impressed that he’s often a clumsy, mess of a man than that it’s “faith that’s accounted to him as righteousness.”