Jesus is not a god that we can manipulate and mold. Christ is the true God, the one who is.
11/12/26
The most sober lesson we can learn from life’s caves is that all we have is a Person, one who never withers or distances himself from us, even though we are weak and languishing.
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11/13/26
Your freedom does not depend on how well you live it. It rests entirely in him.
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03/09/26
Although the outcome has been decided by Jesus victory, the devil won’t give up without a fight.
03/06/26
The Supper doesn’t depend on the faithfulness of the Church. It depends on the faithfulness of Christ.
03/05/26
A rightly-oriented heart and a rightly-oriented love will consistently do what is best for God and best for our neighbor, which is why St. Augustine speaks of sin as a disordered love.
03/04/26
While we often talk about our growth, our progress, and what we are doing for the kingdom of God, the reality is that any goodness in a Christian does not originate in us.
02/26/26
Surveying Scripture, it is an immense comfort to know we’re not alone in our sinfulness.
02/25/26
Christian faith is never a solitary possession. When the congregation confesses, the old speak for the young, the strong for the weak, and the clear-voiced for the trembling.
02/20/26
When we despair of ourselves, we repent of these self-justifying schemes and allow ourselves to be shaped by God, covered in Christ’s righteousness, and reborn with a new heart.
02/18/26
We can’t remove our crosses or the reality of our deaths. Only Jesus can.
02/17/26
People everywhere, every day, feel God’s wrath—and not as merely an afterlife threat but as a present reality.
02/10/26
Christians can pursue projects of justice free of the burden of being the justifier of the world; that office belongs to Christ and Christ alone.
02/09/26
When Dostoevsky died on February 9, 1881, he left behind novels that refuse to flatter the reader or simplify the human condition.
02/06/26
The Bible isn’t a set of moral examples or religious insights. It’s the record of God’s saving work, fulfilled in Christ, delivered now through words spoken and heard.
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