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.
Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.

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Christ has come, does come, and will come. He has set you free from the prison of sin and death.
The words “gift of righteousness” will bring about two completely polar opposite feelings: One of Dread. One of Relief.
The Devil cultivates fear of God and promotes motivation and zeal for outward works and earthly virtue out of pure eternal self-concern.
An orphan girl lives a monotonous life filled with loneliness serving as a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters.
The conversation between four year-old Jackson and his mom in the car after dropping off his siblings at school was all-too-typical.
Abraham didn’t understand God very well (at least not early on). I don’t say that as a dig against the Patriarch. I don’t think any of us understand God very well either.
God in Jesus takes off your shirt of shame, your bitterness, your anger, your guilt, your hopelessness, and drapes these rags on himself.
This rather unique human being is God grounded in our humanity. The man Jesus.
Have you ever heard of Spanx? Although they’ve only been around since 2010, their predecessors have been around for centuries.
True faith, saving faith that receives the good news about the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world is a faith created in us by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel.
The fact is no one dies with dignity.
Quid pro quo, you scratch my back and I will scratch yours. It tends to be the way we humans operate.