We don’t flinch at sin. We speak Christ into it.
One might say that the first statement of the Reformation was that a saint never stops repenting.
Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.

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This time of year, Christmas time, the world isn't so much Christ-expectant as it is Christ-haunted.
Old Adam's works are good because he says they're good. End of conversation.
"What do you mean, 'Confess that I don't believe in God?' I'm a Christian. Of course I believe in God!"
Every Christian is abundantly rich through baptism.
It's easy to forget that today, just like then, most people who laud Luther publicly as a reformer, revolutionary, and so on, secretly reject his teaching because it's too much to take.
Over and over, generation after generation, sinners repeat the same mistake. "How is it possible that God can be a man," we ask.
They were incapable of covering their shame. They knew what they'd done was evil, but since they were only "like" God, there was no way for them to go back and replace evil with good.
So, what do we do when someone doesn't believe God's promise of forgiveness, life, and eternal salvation is for him?
We can leave all the stuff of life behind, because our great treasure God flaunts before the world on Calvary.
Take away the water, words, bread and wine. Can you be a Christian without water, words, bread and wine?
Can God forgive friends who abandoned Him in His hour of greatest need?
“As if” Christians aren’t allowed to reflect; that they’re not kind, generous, brave, or loyal. They’re not living up to the example of biblical saints.