Christ commands and comforts His followers to make followers of Christ through imparting the Word and imparting their lives.

Pastors need to recognize authority, remember their legacy and reignite the fire of gospel ministry.

God is sovereign over evil and often uses it to advance His kingdom.

Jesus understands our pain having suffered the greatest evil at the hands of His own people and calls us to trust in the Father's sovereign goodness.

God uses sovereign rejection to produce sovereign reconciliation.

Faithfulness is finding your identity in Christ, not fearing man.

Without the active pursuit of holiness, the people of God will fall into sin and the work of God will be forsaken.

Believing congregations joyfully sing truth about God as their spiritual service of worship.

Covenanted believers do life together, serve the body, and shepherd one another.

Understanding our tendency to wander from God, believers covenant together and commit themselves to obey His Word and support His work.

Knowing Christ starts with counting all as loss in comparison, continues with growing in our knowing, and arrives at ultimately knowing Him face to face.

The King's authority is established as a suffering servant.