1. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  2. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  3. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  4. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  5. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  6. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  7. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  8. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  9. The answer to our messages is God's "yes," Jesus, who sends his preachers to proclaim that there's no place for us now other than in the grip of our God and Savior.
  10. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.
  11. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  12. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.