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).
How do the words “The righteous shall live by his faith” go from a context of hope in hopelessness to the cornerstone declaration of the chief doctrine of the Christian faith?

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The desire to go home—or to find the place where one truly belongs—is latent in every human being.
The devil isn’t a popular subject nowadays. The argument is made that we’ve progressed as a culture.
I visited a senior man at his home the other day. I'll refer to him as “Jim.”
Jesus opened our ears and mouth when He baptizes us. Jesus put His fingers into our ears, speaks to us, and washes our sins away.
Today’s world has replaced Anfechtung with an entirely new sort of despair.
Perhaps you’ll forgive my reticence to care very much about all of this End of Days talk as it seems that opinions on the matter are very personal and can be really intense.
“The lack of assurance of one’s standing before God causes a person to do anything to make things right in a vain attempt to gain eternal certitude. ”
My Grandmother recently lost a long battle with cancer. Her name was Joy, and a name has never been more fitting.
Assurance of salvation may be the single greatest struggle people have confessed to me. It isn't surprising.
This Jesus healed the blind and the lame and the mute and the barren and raised the dead.
There in that moment, the waters of baptism reached down deep into the forsaken path of the grave with a man whose body and mind could no longer hold onto any reality otherwise.
There is just something about the idea of not being ‘under Law’ that sets off all kinds of alarms in the minds of many Christians.