‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”
This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.
Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.

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We must be careful in how we use Bible verses to establish Scriptural truth both to others and to ourselves.
Our Lord is not only the King of creation but the King of creativity.
Jesus saves us from the love of money which sent the rich young man away sad.
The entrance of children into the world reminds our world of the hope of redemption in Genesis 3:15.
The goal of language in the mouth of a Christian isn’t to hold power for ourselves but to give it.
Preaching is the first line of defense and catechetical offensive against these corrosive falsehoods.
Man and woman together are complete. Apart, they are incomplete. The two correspond and form “one flesh” when combined in sexual relationships and as helpmates.
God’s promise never to separate us from the love of Jesus means that our security, and our confidence, and our forgiveness—even for our part in past divisions—depends entirely on His faithfulness and not ours.
To repent in his name is done thus: in those who believe in Christ God through the same faith works a change for the better, not for a moment, nor for an hour, but for their whole life.
Except for the Augsburg Confession, Melanchthon’s Loci communes of 1521 were the most important of his writings.
You cannot “be what you want to be” and follow Jesus. Jesus has a higher calling for you, a calling which is more personal.
What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?