Jesus is not a god that we can manipulate and mold. Christ is the true God, the one who is.
11/12/26
The most sober lesson we can learn from life’s caves is that all we have is a Person, one who never withers or distances himself from us, even though we are weak and languishing.
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11/13/26
Your freedom does not depend on how well you live it. It rests entirely in him.
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07/20/18
Where once we confessed reliance only in ourselves and our own power, now we confess reliance on Christ alone. So, for our relationship before God, our confession of faith matters.
07/08/18
When we imagine we’re living an evil-shunning, virtue-practicing, morally superior Christian life, the problem is not that our halos are too small, but that our heads are too big.
07/06/18
The question at hand was quite short, “Who is Jesus Christ?
07/05/18
The Law gets a bad rap. There is certainly a negative component to the Law. The work of the Law is very different than the work of the Gospel.
06/25/18
I’ve found that most people struggle to agree with God that we are fully forgiven, redeemed and justified by pure grace alone, for the sake of Jesus Christ alone.
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06/20/18
Jesus is in the business of proclaiming such a beautiful redundancy.
06/19/18
Hus held that Christ alone grants salvation and that popes do not.
06/04/18
He always puts our life and salvation first. He’ll never accept our defeat. He’ll never quit on us. He’ll never leave us fallen and alone.
05/23/18
What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with God? And what words, then, do I pray?
05/16/18
Assurance of salvation may be the single greatest struggle people have confessed to me. It isn't surprising.
05/16/18
The Church of Jesus Christ is and stays Jesus' Church whether we decide it is or not.
05/10/18
If we get past Sunday School moralizing what do we discover in the Old Testament?
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