1. This is an excerpt from Ditching the Checklist: Assurance of Salvation for Evangelicals (and Other Sinners) by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 5-7.
  2. In the liturgy, Christ is present, self-giving, and ever-addressing his people.
  3. Christians don’t need a bucket list. We’ve got the whole bucket: the Word fulfilled, life fulfilled, and life in full.
  4. Luther’s famous treatise contains great consolation for Christians struggling with grace, suffering, and hope.
  5. The addict’s condition speaks a hard truth: that we are all beggars before God, every one of us bent toward the grave.

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