Sinner and Saint (Simul) (116)
  1. Love continues to gently but endlessly pursue the narrator, despite his persistence in pulling away in the opposite direction.
  2. This new life is marked not by fear of death but hope in eternal life.
  3. Satan and the old Adam don't want Jesus to bear our crosses for us because that means we can't claim that we've done anything to merit God's mercy and salvation.
  4. The only reason we're aware of our old self is in baptism, God created a new self for us.
  5. In spiritual matters, the Scriptures teach us that freedom is tied to slavery and bondage.
  6. Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
  7. Jesus is a real person talking to you and feeding you, which is beyond intellectual Christianity!
  8. This is an excerpt adapted from “Let the Bird Fly” written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  9. For the Galatians, adding circumcision to their faith in Jesus was their confidence. But adding anything to Jesus gets you nothing.
  10. His resurrection reveals that Jonah, and all of us, even the evilest people, are salvageable, even from suicide, in Jesus' death and resurrection.
  11. Pelagius maintained an orthodox appearance while rejecting original sin and the distinction between law and gospel.
  12. One moment, we pray for our rescue from sin and death. The next moment, we beg our Father to do unto others what we hope he will never do to us.
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