Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
How do the words “The righteous shall live by his faith” go from a context of hope in hopelessness to the cornerstone declaration of the chief doctrine of the Christian faith?

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Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
“There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
Even for idolatrous sellouts like you and me, God’s position has not changed. Even though we may have forgotten him, he never forgets us.
Our children are not our own, but even more, our children are born in need. They are sinful, from conception and from birth.
Christ has received the mark of law that we might be marked with the gospel, with the sign of his holy cross on our heads and hearts as redeemed children of God.
While the world and other religions might be fine with considering him everything but, the foremost thing our Jesus came to be and still remains is Jesus, Savior.
Buried deep in our human psyche, there seems to be more than a need—almost a necessity—to celebrate the arrival of a new year. It’s like an unspoken, unlegislated cultural demand, as instinctual as moving to music or smiling at a newborn. Why? What deep human need is at work here?