It wasn’t a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.
If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: ‘God with us.’
You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.
Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God’s forgiveness of us.
For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.
I am a free man, a slave of Christ.