Adoption

God not only unites us to himself by the death and resurrection of his Son; he unites us, the church, together and to himself under Christ as his children.

He would not go back on his word, for his word is the word of the Father and the Spirit, and they all say “come.”

His kingdom is not one of force and might for our exploitation and his gain, but one of his patience and long-suffering for our benefit.

How can we know the mysterious workings of God? We look to Jesus: Jesus does His job of Jesus-ing only the way He can Jesus. Jesus never did His Messiah work the way that people thought that He should, and…

Craig and Troy wrestle with the same issue Paul is wrestling through: Wanting our friends and family to be saved and knowing that salvation must come through Christ. As the Prodigal Son believed in his father’s goodness and returned, so…