1. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  2. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  3. This article is written by guest contributor, Aaron Boerst.
  4. Defy the world with its “oughts” and “shoulds,” for in Christ, it is finished.
  5. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  6. The death and resurrection did indeed really happen. They are accomplished historical facts, and by them, so too is the forgiveness of our sins and justification before God.
  7. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  8. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  9. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  10. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  11. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?