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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Jacob is given the gospel afresh right when he needed it and it is because of this gospel that his faith is stirred up anew.
The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.
This is an excerpt from “Confession and Absolution” by John T. Pless in Common Places in Theology: A Curated Collection of Essays from Lutheran Quarterly, edited by Mark Mattes, (1517 Publishing 2023).
Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.
One way or another, Rod always found a way to bring whatever story he was telling back to the gospel and God's grace in Christ.
In this article Amy Mantravadi give a short but helpful summary of the differences in Lutheran and Reformed thought regarding assurance.
1517 Resources to help Celebrate Reformation Day
The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.