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A miracle happened right before our very eyes.
This Christmas season we are thankful that even though we “fallers” are unable to climb up to God, he came down the ladder to us.
When we — sinful, reprehensible we — become the enforcers of justice, we never bring about true justice. We either go too far or not far enough.
The petition not to be led into temptation is found in just the right place within the seven petitions.
To the extent that God is exclusive by offering salvation only through Christ we can say he is more gracious than other systems because he takes on our guilt upon himself while gifting us his righteousness.
Christ crucified is at the heart of both our freedom from sin and death and our freedom to serve and love our neighbor.
Jesus reminds us of God’s mercy to the helpless, snakebitten children of Israel, then connects that story to him being lifted up on a cross to rescue an entire human race that is snakebitten by sin.
When the story begins in creation and ends in restoration, all the moments in between are filled with the working of God.
Instead of defining the true church in the way of the law, Augustine approaches the issue pastorally in the way of the gospel.
The devil isn’t a popular subject nowadays. The argument is made that we’ve progressed as a culture.
We want people to notice us, know us, like us, or even hate us. Just please don’t ignore us. Social media is the ego’s dream come true.
Over time, any inclination the cupbearer might have to speak a good word to Pharaoh on Joseph’s behalf will seem less and less of a moral necessity.