Identity (44)
  1. You are a soul. Not an algorithm. Not a hashtag. A soul knit together by a God who does not mock, does not abandon, and does not lie.
  2. 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.
  3. The baptized do not celebrate sin—they grieve it.
  4. The name of Jesus holds us fast.
  5. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  6. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  7. The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.
  8. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  9. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  10. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  11. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  12. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
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