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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But I remember that that’s how it ended. Words. Wine. Blood. A sudden halt to the conversation.
The kind of peace Jesus points to can't be achieved with words.