Jesus is not a god that we can manipulate and mold. Christ is the true God, the one who is.
The most sober lesson we can learn from life’s caves is that all we have is a Person, one who never withers or distances himself from us, even though we are weak and languishing.
Your freedom does not depend on how well you live it. It rests entirely in him.

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Our experience with good fathers – even when they are not our own – can point us to God the Father.
While the insights in each chapter are uniquely personal to the individual writers, the overarching theme is one of the sufficiency of Christ.
Grace does not emancipate us from any requirement of obedience. Rather, grace allows Jesus to be obedient on our behalf that the righteous demands of the law can be fulfilled.
Except for the Augsburg Confession, Melanchthon’s Loci communes of 1521 were the most important of his writings.
The night has passed and the day broken. In response to the morning dawn, birds sing, beasts arouse themselves and all humanity arises.
Baptism is always valid because no unrighteousness or faithlessness on our part could ify God’s faithfulness.
Jesus did not need a single act of mercy to get him started on the road to mercy, his essence was by nature merciful.
Christ strikes a blow first against the presumption of those who would storm their way into heaven by their good works.
Everyone is living as a naked sufferer who’s been duped into believing that the nakedness of suffering has to be covered up.
Those called out for their sins, who find themselves knee deep in their transgressions, always need grace.
Good Friday encompasses the silence of God, even as it focuses on our salvation in the cross of Christ.
All of my theological endeavoring will not squeeze one more ounce of grace from God.