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.
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).

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Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
Lord, today we remember...
When God makes promises, he is incapable of not keeping them.
Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
The undercurrent of Scripture is the sheer fact that Jehovah God is a God of his word.
In the face of abject evil, these two faithfully cling to the words and truths of he alone who is Good, Jehovah God.
Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.
Sometimes loss is gain. Sometimes defeat is victory. Sometimes weakness is strength. Sometimes death is life. Sometimes, that is, when Christ is at the center, on his cross and not in his tomb.
The promise here is that God is present with us in our troubles, issuing commands to save us before we ask. God does not ignore our suffering and cries.