Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
How do the words “The righteous shall live by his faith” go from a context of hope in hopelessness to the cornerstone declaration of the chief doctrine of the Christian faith?

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Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
Faith should later again flow forth from our heart’s depths to our neighbor freely and unhindered in good works; not that we wish to rest our salvation in them; for God will not have that, but wishes the conscience to rest in himself alone.
What I like about Giertz’s approach is the devotional nature of these commentaries. He’s a pastor concerned with what these texts have to say to us today.
The church is the only place God promises to lift us out of ourselves not in order to become more like God but so that we may finally be freed from our obsession with becoming little gods.
Our experience with good fathers – even when they are not our own – can point us to God the Father.
Hebrews proclaims you absolutely need a priest and you have one. This priest is Jesus!
Bo Giertz attained infamy in Sweden for a humble adherence to unpopular, orthodox practice and doctrine.
The entrance of children into the world reminds our world of the hope of redemption in Genesis 3:15.
The goal of language in the mouth of a Christian isn’t to hold power for ourselves but to give it.
Man and woman together are complete. Apart, they are incomplete. The two correspond and form “one flesh” when combined in sexual relationships and as helpmates.
What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?
Rachel was the beloved wife, to be sure, but she was not the maternal link between Eve and Mary. That blessed position belonged to Leah.