No matter how many times we hear this good news, it never stops being good news.
Our faith is precisely where Paul puts it, namely, in the blood of Christ.
Just as trick-or-treaters arrive at doorsteps as beggars, we come to the Lord’s table with nothing to offer but our sin and need for forgiveness.

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We all long to be in a community of believers that gives us life and makes us feel loved and where we experience real, fruitful community. This comes as we announce the gospel to one another.
Throughout the Old Testament, the seas and fish were symbols of the Gentiles. When Jesus ate fish, and called fishermen, he showed us that the mission to the Gentiles was about to begin in earnest.
If Christmas is about Jesus, and it definitely is, then the real question should be: What’s Jesus all about?
God will not repent. He will not repent of His promises. He will not change His mind regarding His selfless, self-sacrificing, inconceivable love for sinners.
Our actions, moral choices, appearance, definitions of family and friendship are all defined by how we see ourselves in relation to the question, "Am I good enough?"
God comes to fix what is broken by being broken himself. He abolishes death by dying. He subsumes sin by being made sin itself.
The devil knows our name and labels us by our sin. The devil breathes out death as he names us for what we are, sinners.
If the gospel is promise that means it is essentially relational. It stands that the nature of any promise is that it's only as good as the one who issues it.
We expect the world to shoot its wounded. But not even the world expects Christians to shoot their wounded.
The law does not end sin, does not make new beings, it only makes matters worse.
The message of forgiveness of sins is and will always be what makes Church, Church.
The gospel is a one-way rescue by God, through Jesus, for sinners, courtesy of the Holy Spirit exploding faith into an individual who is hearing the good news.