God's Word (220)
  1. He will do it because God is the truth, and always deals with and in the truth.
  2. Jesus gave His disciples the Lord’s Prayer as a gift. It’s really our prayer when you think about it.
  3. Christ’s indwelling in the Christian must be tied relentlessly to these external and objective events of God’s own action.
  4. The distinction between Christ-for-you and Christ-in-you can present a misleading dichotomy.
  5. God is the only one who decides what we receive, when, and how it’s given to us.
  6. The Holy Spirit is not ours to hunt down; rather, we are the ones relentlessly pursued by the word of Christ.
  7. Mere confrontation in the form of, “What you’re doing is wrong—you need to change yourself,” can never solve the root of our problem.
  8. Martin Luther is not–or, at least should not–be the object of our affection.
  9. The real problem with the way we talk about Baptism in particular, and the sacraments at all, is that we are simply afraid of letting God’s Word get us.
  10. These treasures show us that, no matter how well we think we know this poem, there’s always more layers to uncover.
  11. The initial sin, therefore, was not the eating of the forbidden fruit but rather listening to a cynic question and intentionally misinterpret God’s goodness
  12. We prefer this to be switched around. We want something to happen in us before anything happens outside of us.
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