This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 74-77.
07/21/25
“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.
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07/18/25
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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03/14/18
The victory of Christ is hidden in the crosses we bear as Christians following Him to our own personal Golgothas.
03/13/18
God is for us in His foolish, scarred Word and Wisdom. Nothing is against us, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
03/10/18
In God’s eyes, we cannot be too fat or ugly, mean or selfish, shamed or abused, corrupted or inadequate for him not to love us.
03/05/18
We are no longer controlled by sin as He moves our lips to speak love and forgiveness. We are passive as He acts out His words and His salvation for us.
03/02/18
Now, resurrection can only follow upon death. The good news is, it will!
03/01/18
How does that sit with you? It frightens me. Naked, exposed in the eyes of the One to Whom I must give account?
02/27/18
“Church is set free in Christ, in short, to revel in her irrelevance to the ways of the world’s power and wisdom.
02/21/18
Christ exchanged His excellent love, His wonderful heart, for my shameful adultery with you.
02/20/18
That is why the church has to offer Super Bread and Super Wine, so that God can see that we are Super Christians.
02/16/18
God has given us a way out of our plight of “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” It is the way of the cross.
02/14/18
Today I want to give you some good news. It is good news for the relationship failure; for the one who is self-focused;
02/14/18
Gone, abolished, put away with, undone, and destroyed are any and all notions that my repentance unlocks, sets free, or earns God’s forgiveness.
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