The certainty of faith is utter assurance because it depends upon nothing of your own. It is entirely trusting that God is a propitious, pardoning God—the God who justifies sinners by forgiving them.
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07/23/26
Sinners get faith as a gift when Christ takes their captivity captive.
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03/26/18
You have been invited to bring God’s grace to people who are dying for want of it.
03/24/18
God’s telling a joke. And after we’re done laughing at this silly divinity, we realize that the true joke is on us.
03/20/18
God’s grace and freedom announces the truth to us about ourselves. We need a real Savior.
03/14/18
Whenever I read the Genesis account of Abraham, I’m more impressed that he’s often a clumsy, mess of a man than that it’s “faith that’s accounted to him as righteousness.”
03/14/18
The victory of Christ is hidden in the crosses we bear as Christians following Him to our own personal Golgothas.
03/13/18
God is for us in His foolish, scarred Word and Wisdom. Nothing is against us, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
03/12/18
The absence of a feeling is not the absence of Christ, but as emotional, rational, and spiritual beings, we cannot say that the presence of Christ necessitates the absence of emotion.
03/06/18
We all look forward to Lent’s conclusion and the celebration of Resurrection Sunday. This is the Sunday of victory and joy as the Church enters into the reality that Christ has defeated death and hell, declared victory over such enemies and set history on its final course of consummation.
03/05/18
We are no longer controlled by sin as He moves our lips to speak love and forgiveness. We are passive as He acts out His words and His salvation for us.
03/01/18
How does that sit with you? It frightens me. Naked, exposed in the eyes of the One to Whom I must give account?
02/28/18
As sinful humans, we are adept at taking what God gives as gift and making it into a work. Nowhere is this made more evident than in the universally misunderstood doctrine of sanctification.
02/27/18
“Church is set free in Christ, in short, to revel in her irrelevance to the ways of the world’s power and wisdom.
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