God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.
Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.
Bringing your family to church to receive “the one thing needful” (Luke 10:42) in Word and Sacrament honors and pleases God.

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The conversation between four year-old Jackson and his mom in the car after dropping off his siblings at school was all-too-typical.
We were created by our heavenly Father to receive all things from Him as free gift.
Just when we think we had it all under control, Christ breaks into the midst of our futile efforts to save ourselves.
You can see it far off, looming on the horizon, a thick fog menacing off the coast and swirling in the distance. You know the signs.
It seems like the sky is falling every other day now. From politics to culture to religion to about anything else, there’s one purported cataclysm after another on the horizon.
The common knock against “grace people” (or to put it another way, “Christians”) is that preaching too much grace will encourage licentious living.
He has given you clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home—as well as grocery stores, carpenters, and farmers to provide those goods.
Even a sinner who is crushed by the weight of her offenses, who feels in her bones the weight of judgment, shame, and doubt can expect to receive God's good word.
The fact is no one dies with dignity.
Have you ever wondered, of all the adjectives we could use to describe this day why in the world we chose the word “good?” Yeah, me too.
Apart from bare, naked faith in Jesus' atoning work for us, no sinner is, or ever can be, holy.
The God who's lifted up above Calvary, abandoned and forsaken, should draw a more discerning crowd of followers.