Do our petitions move God?

In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.

You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.

God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.

“God in general” is of little use to all of us suffering the ravages of sin, the fear of death, and satanic prosecution.

God daily broadsides us with his abundant power and glory as we observe nature around us. And yet, as glorious as this book of nature is, it is not enough.

This is an excerpt from “A Lutheran Toolkit” written by Ken Sundet Jones (1517 Publishing, 2021), pgs. 23-25.

The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.

In his last novel, Islands in the Stream, Hemingway shows us what we get when we look to nature for ultimate truth: death.

The real question we must ask about God’s will isn’t, “God, command us according to your will and we’ll do it,” but, “God, what are you willing to do for us who can’t do what you command?”

We might not appreciate that God chooses to save us by his word alone, but our discomfort doesn’t make the promise any less effective.

Terror and even hatred of God are the only things with which divine hiddenness can leave us.