Christianity does not locate freedom in radical autonomy. It does not tell either men or women that happiness consists in escaping obligations arising from relationships we did not entirely choose.
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10/26/26
Jesus never promised me a World Series championship. He never promised that my children would always succeed or that life would go according to plan. He promised something better.
10/16/26
In Jesus, God acted first, even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:5).
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08/29/23
This is an excerpt from Faith in the Face of Tyranny: An Examination of the Bethel Confession Proposed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Hermann Sasse in August 1933, written by Torbjörn Johansson and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2023).
08/10/23
Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
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08/07/23
God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
05/02/23
Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
03/01/23
As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
01/20/23
Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
01/18/23
The gospel's message is the scandalous announcement that Yahweh has stooped to our frame, to where we are.
01/05/23
As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
01/04/23
God resolves his wrath through the unexpected giving of his Son.
12/28/22
That great truth of creedal Christianity – that God is man in Christ – is not set forth for our speculative enjoyment.
12/26/22
It makes perfect sense that the day honoring Jesus' birth would be observed in a decidedly less than refined manner.
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