Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.
We don’t flinch at sin. We speak Christ into it.
One might say that the first statement of the Reformation was that a saint never stops repenting.

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C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
While midnight might seem long, the mercy of God assures us that the morning will come.
Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.