Lent (296)
  1. This event is about far more than physical healing; it reveals the necessity of Jesus’ deliverance from spiritual darkness.
  2. Resurrection is breaking into darkness. The darkness has not comprehended it, cannot overcome, and cannot hold it back.
  3. Jesus is displaying the works of God which He has for the world so all might see, both physically and especially spiritually, the salvation found only in Christ.
  4. She is the woman who, having received His Word, pointed others to Christ. And by her encouragement, they too have an experience of faith.
  5. The right sermon will connect our present suffering with Christ’s historic suffering as the perfect entree for delivering His work on our behalf.
  6. Grace is God’s attitude towards sinners. This is what God’s people had mistaken in the desert.
  7. 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.
  8. For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.
  9. 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.
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