When we consider our own end, it will not bring us into a final wrestling match with the messenger of God, but into the embrace of the Messiah of God.
What do such callings look like? They are ordinary and everyday.
This is the third in a series meant to let the Christian tradition speak for itself, the way it has carried Christians through long winters, confusion, and joy for centuries.

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Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
You will not be disappointed in this Champion of the Incarnation.
In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
Ethics begins not with our doing, but with the Triune God’s giving.
The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
Jesus is both the image bearer and the image giver. In Jesus’ incarnation we are redeemed and re-imaged.
In Genesis 1-2, the Lord reveals—or, at a bare minimum, starts dropping some big hints—that he will be quite comfortable becoming a human being himself someday.
Thanksgiving utters a confession of dependence, an acknowledgement of the gift of something not earned or deserved.
The church is the only place God promises to lift us out of ourselves not in order to become more like God but so that we may finally be freed from our obsession with becoming little gods.
Christ has taken our failures and defeats and exchanges that yoke for his own.