New Years

The real power of his hymn comes from the fact that Bonhoeffer does not offer a rosy picture of life or any of the tropes so typical of cheap piety that tell us that everything is always right, that things happen for a reason, and that we should try to stay positive.

I got your life application right here! First off, Happy New Year! It's 2019 and there's a sense of optimism floating about in the air.

As is usually the case with God, He uses something strange and earthly as a picture of His grace and mercy.

We fail over and over again to tame the sin in our hearts, to guard the doors of our lips and to act like the children of God.

Freedom from the Law does not come through personal perfection, it comes through Jesus Christ. The answer is not a better you, but a you who is united to God through Christ.