The acts of God in clothing Adam and Eve and their subsequent extirpation from the garden are chiefly merciful acts.

Has the faith really once and for all been delivered to the saints?

The Lord brings his people through times of crisis so that they might be reoriented to cast their life lines on God and God alone.

The act of Adam renaming his wife Eve is significant because it refers to something new in the redemptive purpose of God.

Because of the central concept of Christ crucified, our identity is drastically different than those found in our world.

The Church is not a natural community but an outpost of God's Kingdom in this present evil age.

The Lord responds to Adam and Eve's sin in justice and mercy, anticipating the cosmic battle between Messiah and Satan.

We are to follow Paul's example of being willing to forego our Christian liberty in order to gain followers of Jesus.

Because of its enduring perfection, we are to strive after love.

That his friends and his disciples rejected him reflects the utter and complete humiliation of the Son of God.

Through Christ's death and resurrection, the universal enemies of sin and death have been conquered apart from the Law.

Restoration and recovery can be attributed only to the intervention of God and only because he is the Lord God.

The Apostle Paul confronts the sexual sins of the Corinthians with the gospel – their identity as Christians.

Heed the seriousness of temptation in the Christian life and embrace the one who had victory over temptation.

Knowing the end in some sense effects the way we deal with the present.

When Adam and Eve demoted God they demeaned themselves.

In regards to meat sacrificed to idols, Paul is preeminently concerned with the motive of the heart.

The Book of Revelation is to be read first and foremost as a blessing for God's people.

An apostolic church is one that holds fast to the teaching of the apostles.

Evil cannot be addressed unless sin is delt with.