A Holy Ambition

To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named

“‘Holy ambition’ means something you really want to do that God wants you to do. Something you want to do so much that doing it keeps you from doing other things that you also really like to do” (p. 17).

Bloodlines

Race, Cross, and the Christian

"The bloodline of Jesus Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race. The death and resurrection of the Son of God for sinners is the only sufficient power to bring the bloodlines of race into the single bloodline of the cross" (p. 13-14).

Stand

A Call for the Endurance of the Saints

“So growing old to the glory of God means using whatever strength and eyesight and hearing and mobility and resources we have left to treasure Christ and in that joy to serve people—that is, to seek to bring them with us into the everlasting enjoyment of Christ” (p. 39).

Love Your Enemies

Jesus' Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels & the Early Christian Paraenesis

“Our only hope for loving our enemy is to be a new creation in Christ. And our only hope for being a new creation in Christ is to be reconciled to God through the death of his Son” (p. x).