TOPIC INDEXJustification (24)
  1. He will plead guilty on our behalf, and suffer the death sentence in our place.
  2. He is not ashamed to call us brothers and sisters, even as we curse and yell at him for not pleasing us with our pettish wishes.
  3. He is our gold. He is our pure garment. He is our healing. He is our sanity. He is our wholeness.
  4. That is the good news that ifies all hand wringing and wipes away every tear from every eye.
  5. 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.”
  6. Today, by faith, we live free from condemnation, free from the fear of death, free from all slander the devil could whisper and scatter about us. In Him we have a new family, the family of the forgiven.
  7. The history of the early Reformation in the New World is both a tale of pirates and the battle of catechisms.
  8. Since Adam, we are all illegal and undocumented aliens in God’s country.
  9. As I write this, I wonder if perhaps I am stretching things a bit thinking that it would be relevant to a considerably more sophisticated audience. Perhaps we already know the Gospel, that we are all sinners.
  10. Then, Jesus our Groom, with His nail-scarred hands takes our hands and walks out with us from that ultimate courtroom, and into eternity – His eternity – and a never-ending wedding feast.
  11. On the cross, God removed the load of every single one of your sins and placed it instead on Christ. Then, He clothed you with the fullness of His holiness and perfection.
  12. I told him that God does not have two types of sheep. God does not have a fold of black, and another white. God only has a fold made up entirely of black sheep because He knows the truth about us.