The Bible isn’t a set of moral examples or religious insights. It’s the record of God’s saving work, fulfilled in Christ, delivered now through words spoken and heard.
Ultimately, Scripture does not confront fear with commands. It confronts fear with a promise.
The Scriptures consistently speak about sanctification as a sure gift for the Christian.

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We are dangerously good at focusing on our exciting, or boring, walk of faith.
While I was still an over-eager seminarian the professor warned me, “Mr. Riley, this is exciting stuff.
God graciously bursts our foolish plots by coming our way, into our very flesh, and being God with us.
In Christ, the Word become flesh, this is a concrete, real fact. It is the bedrock foundation of the Gospel.
History was one of dad’s favorite subjects and he shared his knowledge with infectious enthusiasm.
For since it was not enough that the Lord of heaven and earth hung on our every word, the Word came down from heaven and hung upon the cross.
God’s justification of us does not happen secretly in our spirits. God justifies you and me in His absolving Word
Good preaching does something for you. It delivers to you a Good Samaritan.
Rather than presenting Christ’s words as a rule or a threat, Luther reveals it to be the promise of God.
But where love is necessary we pray for our enemies and bless them in the hope that God will repent and convert them to the Gospel.
How strange and yet how comforting: God prays to God for us, the Spirit to the Father. He sees through the fog of our emotions to what we truly need.
The Law though it does many things—restrains, exhorts the Christian unto righteousness, punishes—always rightly accuses and condemns sinners of their sin before a righteous, holy, and just God.