Faith and Works (83)
  1. We are invited to entrust everything to the one who accomplished what we could not: living and bleeding and dying and rising again, so that “whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). To put it another way, when it comes to the kingdom of God, there’s no room for DIY’ers. Best leave it to the professionals.
  2. What do such callings look like? They are ordinary and everyday.
  3. The story of your life stretches beyond the dash on the tombstone.
  4. Faith takes God at his word and holds his promise to be true for me because I know God would not lie to me.
  5. Christ is your Good Shepherd, and he has given to you eternal life; no one can snatch you from his hand; your salvation is secure and unlost.
  6. No matter how stringent one's "regulations" — "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (Col. 2:21) — the sinful nature that resides in everyone's heart is untamable by self-effort alone.
  7. Jesus satisfies, fills, and saves because he is the Son of God, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever.
  8. We love hearing about Jesus, but we also love hearing about how much effort we need to exert to truly pull off this whole “Christian life” thing.
  9. Jesus came for little children, and that is what we are. We are children of God.
  10. Jesus has instituted his living-breathing disciples, his shepherds in his church, to declare the full forgiveness of sins.
  11. To obtain this righteousness, you have to admit you don’t have it and could never produce it on your own because you are unrighteous.
  12. There is a bit of Narcissus in all of us. We are all lost within ourselves.
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