Lent (303)
  1. Grace is God’s attitude towards sinners. This is what God’s people had mistaken in the desert.
  2. A rightly-oriented heart and a rightly-oriented love will consistently do what is best for God and best for our neighbor, which is why St. Augustine speaks of sin as a disordered love.
  3. For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.
  4. Your exhaustion may not be a sign of weakness of faith. It may be the fruit of enthusiasm. It is Lent. Fast from your fever. Embrace the exhaustion. Curb your inner enthusiast and cling to Christ.
  5. Every attempt to gain Heaven by some sort of sin-management system is called to task in this text.
  6. Faith is never something we have on our own, but it is something God’s Word of promise creates out of nothing.
  7. Faith, the reliance of your hearers in utter dependence on the promise delivered to them by the promise of Christ, is, indeed, a worthy goal of your preaching. But faith is never created by talking about faith!
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