If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.

The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher. 

Remember what makes prayer easy is not our wits or our understanding, but the tremendous agony of God in redemption...Prayer is not what it costs us, but what it cost God to enable us to pray.

The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but "to reveal His son in me.

The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much.

Only as we see our story enfolded in the larger story of redemption will we begin to live God-honoring lives.

You and I never could have started at the fall of Adam and Eve and used reason to predict the coming of Jesus and his death on the cross. Old Testament believers knew that God was going to deal with sin and give new life to his people because God told them that this was what he was going to do. But they did not know that the death of the Son of God would be the means by which this would happen.

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.