Indeed, Jesus is our Father's answer to our Hosanna.
Lent exists because we are forgetful creatures. We forget how hungry we really are.
The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.

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We just finished celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
What is it to be an heir of the Reformation? It is to look outward to Christ bleeding and dying on the cross as Great Rescuer of sinners—of me.
The Lutheran Reformation was a reformation of the Christian imagination alongside its theology.
So bondage meets freedom, and God becomes our Master through Christ.
Rather than presenting Christ’s words as a rule or a threat, Luther reveals it to be the promise of God.
This is a selection from, "A Path Strewn With Sinners" by Wade Johnston
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
Desiderius Erasmus and many humanists had for a while held out hope for Luther’s call for reform and many of the reformers were themselves, to some degree, humanists.
Just when we think we had it all under control, Christ breaks into the midst of our futile efforts to save ourselves.
The common knock against “grace people” (or to put it another way, “Christians”) is that preaching too much grace will encourage licentious living.
Apart from bare, naked faith in Jesus' atoning work for us, no sinner is, or ever can be, holy.
We’ve been desperate—and it is a gift of God when we are, when we realize our lost condition!