Matthew 16:24-26 shows us how we can be rich towards God and it is by not saving our lives and hoarding possessions, but instead by losing our lives for His sake. For what do we profit if we gain the whole world, but do not gain Him?

When John Calvin lines up with the Bible, I am a Calvinist. When Jacob Arminius lines up with the Bible, I am an Arminian. When they do not, which is usually the case, I am neither.

In his infinite wisdom, in which the creative order and design for mankind could exist in any other combination, God chose this one: that men and women constitute the two concrete biological realities, that these are to be correlated with their identities, and that all of this is both right and good.