Pentecost (54)
  1. Christ is the crisis-point of salvation and judgment for the entire world, and for your hearer this week.
  2. At funerals, everyone becomes a theologian, or at least a grief counselor. And some people are not as good at those jobs as other people.
  3. It is the Word that makes Christians, sustains Christians, and sends Christians back into the world to love their neighbors.
  4. We are waiting for a person, for His Son from Heaven. We are waiting for the Jesus who came once in humility to come again in glory.
  5. Jesus is ours not because we are climbing the right ladder in the right way. Jesus is ours because He has given Himself to us.
  6. Paul hits the nail on the head in this tour-de-force of alien righteousness teaching.
  7. The Kingdom we have been planted in is not a scramble to the top, but a dive to the bottom, to serve, to receive, not to lord it over and acquire and do.
  8. The worthy life is not payment for citizenship. It is the life of a citizen who knows where home is... and who has built the house!
  9. There is no problem with Christians developing different practices, cultural traditions, and the like. The problem arises when these become the badge of belonging, when they become the badge of righteousness.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
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