Sanctification (6)
  1. We can lay down our sledgehammers of moralistic performance, which aren’t effective anyway, and we can trust that we are his and his life is ours.
  2. He doesn’t consume us, even though that is what we deserve. Instead, Jesus comes down to us and consumes all our sin by taking it on himself.
  3. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  4. Growth and maturity in the Spirit doesn’t look like we think it does. That’s because it’s backward.
  5. Among the things that perturb me about modern Christianity is our residual clinging to a sort of “Christian-karma.”
  6. One of the things you get used to if you talk about this thing called “grace” often enough, is sooner or later you’ll be looked down on by your peers.