It is often thought that repentance must precede forgiveness, and some think it strange that it should ever be thought the other way around,...

St. John the Revelator calls our Lord Jesus Christ, “the Lamb Slain from the Foundation of the World” (Revelation 13:8). St. John the Baptis...

How we view sin affects how we understand salvation. When sin is framed as a legal infraction, the violation of a code, salvation becomes a ...

In the book of Ephesians, St. Paul speaks of God’s great and eternal plan for all creation, which has been revealed in our Lord Jesus Christ...

In the Beginning, God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, and in our likeness.” Jesus Christ, who is the Image of the Invisible God, ...

Here is a trustworthy saying, St. Paul writes: “Christ came into the world to save sinners — of whom I am the worst” (1 Timothy 1:15). He sa...

There is a distinction between Law and Gospel, of course, and an important one. St. Paul says that the Law is holy, and the commandment is h...

The debate between “Lordship Salvation” and “Easy Believism” was quite the “tempest in the teapot” for a certain segment of evangelicalism —...

Faith in Christ is different from faith in propositions about Christ. The latter makes faith nothing more than an abstraction, disembodied a...

The Gospel begins with Jesus Christ. He is what God meant when God said, “Let us make Humankind in Our image, and to be like Us.” He is the ...

On the Cross, we see the reciprocal truth of the Incarnation: Jesus Christ is not only God’s faithfulness toward us, he is also our faithful...

The resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead is the resurrection of the dead. He whom God raised from the dead has become our res...

Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a partici...

The Love of God is unconditional and non-transactional. God is Love, and in Jesus Christ we see exactly what that looks like: self-giving, o...

The Incarnation cannot be undone. If it could, it would be the undoing of our salvation, for the Cross and Resurrection would be of no benef...

Our Lord Jesus Christ became human, that humankind may become divine. Though Christ was rich, for our sake, he became poor, just as we are,...

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.  Blessed are ...

God is Love, as St. John tells us (1 John 4:8). Love is not merely something God has or does under certain conditions. No, Love is what God ...

Faith in Christ is not merely mental acquiescence to some proposition about him. More than that, it is personal engagement with Christ, entr...

In Ephesians 1, St. Paul lays out the “Big Picture,” God’s eternal purpose in Christ, from beginning to end. It begins with God choosing us ...