Reformation Doctrine (127)
  1. As long as we hold tight to a life that was never ours to possess in the first place, so long as we refuse to lay down our life so others can live, Jesus can't do a thing for us.
  2. Christianity isn’t about our faith. It’s about God’s faithfulness to His promises.
  3. But when God's Word of Law and Gospel are tuned up, when they're properly distinguished, then Jesus' words rain down on us like thunderbolts.
  4. A Christian is justified—saved from sin, death, and hell—by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
  5. When it comes to faith, God runs all the verbs. God's Spirit calls us by the Gospel. He enlightens us with His gifts.
  6. Can one still find a church that teaches that Christianity, and the Christian life, can be summed up as: "We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?"
  7. We can leave all the stuff of life behind, because our great treasure God flaunts before the world on Calvary.