This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 74-77.
“The Church exists to tell anyone and everyone who knocks on her door wondering what’s inside: Come and see” (pg. 58). Such reminders make The Church a worthwhile read.
The way of the cross is the actual way of victory. Jesus absorbs the worst of what humanity and even the devil can do to him, and he spurns the shame of it all.

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Oh Come, see Him loving you before He was ever even born.
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God acts through His Word and means in order to create, restore, and renew inward faith.
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Divine election hacking happens with the proposal that God’s Word is irrelevant and powerless, weak and impotent.