Salvation (877)
  1. This is not just a pericope about hereditary sin and actual sins, nor is it providing a pattern for prayer. It is fundamentally about God our gracious Father and His promise to hear us, answer us, and provide for us.
  2. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  3. But it is not always helpful to create tidy categories of good and bad and to say, “Stop being ‘a Martha’ and do a better job of being ‘a Mary.’” That is a dangerous sermon to preach. In doing so, we can fall into the very thing we see Martha doing.
  4. In this episode, Paulson identifies the worry that all religion tries to answer "Am I chosen by God?"
  5. The parable of the Good Samaritan is both a call to faith in Jesus and a call to love our neighbor.
  6. Jesus and the Parables
  7. Despite the very real obstacles and difficulties, this entire scene is marked by God’s gracious work.
  8. There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
  9. Nuance and subtlety have been replaced with scorched-earth contempt. It is us versus them. Compromise is not an option. Jesus, however, would have none of it.
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