1. The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.
  2. Success is emphatically not your primary identity.
  3. Like Jacob, sinners approach the Heavenly Father wearing the clothes of their older brother, Jesus.
  4. This week on Tough Texts, Scott and Dan explore Romans 5, a chapter that addresses the concept of original sin and its implications for humanity.
  5. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  6. The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
  7. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  8. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  9. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  10. There are two kinds of righteousness, what are they?
  11. Author and speaker, Elyse Fitzpatrick, talks with Kelsi about the condemnation and accusation of the law, and as a result, how no one is able to truly achieve perfectionism.
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