This is an excerpt from the first chapter of Being Family by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-6.
God has told us everything necessary for faith. However he has not told us everything there is to know.
Jesus didn’t enter the water because he was sinful; he entered the water because John was sinful, as are we all.

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Hains offers a novel yet simple contention: Luther is most catholic where he is boldest.
The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
You’re not new because of what you do. You’re new and so you do new things, even in spite of yourself, because of your sinful nature.
Weak faith in a strong Christ is still saving faith.
There is no true life and meaningful community apart from forgiveness.
For as you pick up the Holy Bible, God’s Word to you and for you in Christ, the words of the prophet Isaiah echo in your ears, "The Word of the Lord Endures Forever."
Jesus is the anti-Cain: a giver, not a taker.
It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
Lord, today we remember...
Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.