Confession and Absolution (135)
  1. This is an edited excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  2. We all know what I think (maybe) Rachel knows: Celebrating ourselves isn’t enough. It won’t ever be enough.
  3. Absolution is the word God speaks to cause his sin-dead creation to live.
  4. God has a strange delivery system, the foolish preaching of the cross and foolish preachers for Christ’s sake delivering it.
  5. Jesus lives to intercede. So we needn’t bring him our feigned righteousness or our faux rehabilitation.
  6. Apathy, melancholy, and disillusionment plague the footsteps of the up-and-coming generations more than ever, especially in the realm of religion, and it’s worth asking, “Why?”
  7. Repent and believe the Good News! Everything is OK.
  8. The Thinking Fellows talk about Luther’s breakdown and examples of confession in the Small Catechism.
  9. Advent is not a call to prepare to engage in a transaction with God.
  10. Christ urges us to love our neighbor as He loved us, forgiving all of their sins - giving them the absolving, shirt-pulling, embrace that we would also want.
  11. Jesus does not seek out Peter to condemn, but to restore his precious lost sheep, His dearly loved prodigal son.
  12. Sometimes the guilt in us manifests itself in different ways. Whether it's a weight or sadness, anger or venting, blame or defensiveness, we see it in ourselves and we see it in our relationships.
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