1. In Christ, you are bound. Bound to mercy. Bound to grace. Bound to a God who won’t let you go. And because of that, you are free—gloriously, joyfully free.
  2. When you remember your baptism, you're not recalling a ritual. You're standing under a current of divine action that has not ceased to flow since the moment those baptismal waters hit your skin.
  3. It's a new year, and you are still the same you: a sinner who is simultaneously perfect in every way because Christ declares it to be so.
  4. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  5. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.

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