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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As both law and gospel are proclaimed, judgment and deliverance are miraculously pronounced over the hearer.
Success is emphatically not your primary identity.
Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
The nefarious thing about idolatry is that just about anything can become your idol: career, family, fame, wealth, status, spouse, you name it, any good thing can become a ‘god-thing” with ease. 
The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
What we are asked to believe as we ponder the birth of this child is that in his coming, a new creation has dawned.
Just like in the previous interview, I had to rewind to make sure I was hearing all this right. Yeah, that's actually what he said.
But the biggest problem with the Pharisee’s prayer is that he judges himself compared to other people, rather than to God. Our natural tendency is to do just this.
The grace of God does not save us at the beginning only in order to keep ourselves in his good graces by our good enough readiness.
God invites you to confess the skeletons in your closet so that he might bury them in the grave for good.