Every earthly kingdom meets its end. All empires crumble and fall. But from the beginning, the kingdom of God, which Christ would rule, was said to be eternal.
The goal isn't to give kids a balanced or equal measure of each but to give the right medicine at the right time.
Three Lenten songs express the same astonishing wonder of a Lord who willingly suffers and dies.

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As both law and gospel are proclaimed, judgment and deliverance are miraculously pronounced over the hearer.
Success is emphatically not your primary identity.
Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
The nefarious thing about idolatry is that just about anything can become your idol: career, family, fame, wealth, status, spouse, you name it, any good thing can become a ‘god-thing” with ease. 
The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
What we are asked to believe as we ponder the birth of this child is that in his coming, a new creation has dawned.
Just like in the previous interview, I had to rewind to make sure I was hearing all this right. Yeah, that's actually what he said.
But the biggest problem with the Pharisee’s prayer is that he judges himself compared to other people, rather than to God. Our natural tendency is to do just this.
The grace of God does not save us at the beginning only in order to keep ourselves in his good graces by our good enough readiness.
God invites you to confess the skeletons in your closet so that he might bury them in the grave for good.