God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.
Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.
Bringing your family to church to receive “the one thing needful” (Luke 10:42) in Word and Sacrament honors and pleases God.

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The lesson of Malachi reveals God’s love for his people. When the people ask for proof of God’s love, he reminds them of their election.
Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
Lord, today we remember...
Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
This book is not in your hands so that we can simply commiserate with each other’s difficulties. It is meant to pierce your sin-darkened night with the light of God’s Word.
God is not a preoccupied parent, he’s an invested and interested tender loving Father. He values what perplexes us.
There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.