Pauline Epistles (42)
  1. Good works, doing good, is not some sort of value-add bonus to the Christian life. Good works are the natural, organic outgrowth of being grafted into the Body of Christ.
  2. The life of the Christian Church in the New Testament period, that is, the end times, the penultimate, is one of persecution.
  3. Paul wants Timothy to share his faith and to deliver it. Paul wants you to share his faith and to deliver it, too.
  4. The heart of Reformation Day is God’s great love for His Church, preserving it in spite of man’s sin and weakness, and transforming the world and the hearts and lives of sinners through the proclamation of the Gospel.
  5. Preach the Word. Preach and teach purely. Care for people, but be no “respecter of persons,” bowing to their appetites, bending to their whims.
  6. Thanks be to God that when we are faithless, Jesus is faithful, even to death, even to resurrection. His own. And yours.
  7. This is theology of the cross. It is a treasure in jars of clay, surpassing power, and faith in folks like Timothy and Paul and in little old ladies like Eunice and Lois.
  8. The only God to invest in is Jesus Christ who bids us follow.
  9. God in Christ shows us how to lift up holy hands.
  10. The sinner who soberly faces her sin has no place to run but to a savior, and the savior to run to is at the cross. The cross is where sin goes to die.
  11. Christ’s hands and feet, Christ’s very heart, are, indeed, the hands, feet, and heart of His servants, His slaves, those He has made free by dying as slave for them.
  12. The new life that is hidden in Christ through burial and resurrection is a new life that starts at your baptism, God’s work on your behalf that has ongoing effects.
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