Pentecost (30)
  1. He is Immanuel, God-with-us, and He is with His Church, very present where His name is, very present where His gifts are, and very present where His people are.
  2. 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.
  3. To follow with confidence, to stand firm, to hold the traditions taught by Paul and Silas from the beginning of the Macedonian mission, is nothing more nor less than holding on to the Jesus who was handed over, standing firm on Jesus.
  4. The life of the Christian Church in the New Testament period, that is, the end times, the penultimate, is one of persecution.
  5. Paul wants Timothy to share his faith and to deliver it. Paul wants you to share his faith and to deliver it, too.
  6. Preach the Word. Preach and teach purely. Care for people, but be no “respecter of persons,” bowing to their appetites, bending to their whims.
  7. Thanks be to God that when we are faithless, Jesus is faithful, even to death, even to resurrection. His own. And yours.
  8. 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.
  9. The only God to invest in is Jesus Christ who bids us follow.
  10. God in Christ shows us how to lift up holy hands.
  11. 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.
  12. Matthew’s gospel speaks the truth in love, and the truth it speaks is the dead and living Lord Jesus exclusively, and all nations, Jews and Gentiles, inclusively.
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