Lectionary: Series A (45)
  1. Christians are called to love even amid imperfect institutions, imperfect marriages and families, imperfect churches and congregations, and called to love even in our clunky and imperfect society.
  2. Paul is not telling Christians to go searching for extraordinary opportunities to demonstrate holiness. Instead, he fills the ordinary relationships God has already assigned with extraordinary mercy.
  3. The Christian walks into every station of her life, not seeking opportunities to prove herself, but, rather, opportunities to embody the mercy that first claimed her.
  4. Election is not, primarily, about who is on the outs! Election is God’s determination that His gracious promise will not fail.
  5. Christ teaches an entirely different language. And like every language, it is not mastered by memorizing vocab lists. It is best to learn this one by immersion.
  6. Before he teaches, Paul grieves. Before he argues, he weeps. Before he explains God’s mysterious purposes, he opens his own heart.
  7. Paul fills the courtroom with questions, but the Christian ultimately answers none of them. God answers them all.
  8. Whether sigh or groan, weeping or loud cry, Christ does not stand aloof from the world’s groaning. He, in fact, enters it.
  9. Being a child, heir, heir of God, and coheir with Christ raises the obvious question, what exactly does the Son of God inherit, which I inherit along with Him?
  10. In a text which struggles with the law, the Jesus you preach this week must be the law fulfiller.
  11. Paul is saying that, in its curbing function or use or purpose, the Law may curb, but it curbs us to death. The Law may indeed instruct, and it will instruct us to death.
  12. You are sinner and saint, dead and alive. Old Adam, New Adam describes the existence of every baptized believer.
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