This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 74-77.
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“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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Salvation starts in being a sinner and knowing it because that's where God starts salvation, in making "Him to be Sin who knew no sin."
01/16/17
Among the things that perturb me about modern Christianity is our residual clinging to a sort of “Christian-karma.”
01/15/17
God’s Son is infinitely more than our fragile egos have flattened him out to be.
01/12/17
Far from being un-Christian like, the discipline and training that go into learning and practicing various martial arts can have direct application to the spiritual discipline needed for the Christian life of faith characterized by Israel.
01/10/17
The truth is, a Christian's holiness is hidden outside himself in Christ through faith.
01/03/17
Are our resolutions righteous? Is our commitment to self-improvement a selfless act motivated by love for the neighbor?
12/27/16
Can one still find a church that teaches that Christianity, and the Christian life, can be summed up as: "We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?"
12/14/16
Is there no sweeter sound than Immanuel? Christ’s name, God with us. Those three words heal an ocean of hurts, give courage to the weakest heart, and lifts the head of the weariest pilgrim.
12/11/16
He created us with an eye on recreating us. He made humanity in his image because one day he would assume that image. The Creator would become a creature while remaining Creator.
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12/09/16
So it is with my little garden as well; dead, so it would seem. Nothing. Barren.
12/06/16
This time of year, Christmas time, the world isn't so much Christ-expectant as it is Christ-haunted.
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