Redemption (97)
  1. What does Jesus mean that we should be perfect, as Jesus is perfect? Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin look at the context of the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5 where this passage is found.
  2. Jesus Christ is relentless. He does not give up. And with him comes the certainty of redemption.
  3. The point of Revelation is to reveal consolation in Jesus, not to revel in chaos and confusion.
  4. This is an excerpt from chapter 6 of Scandalous Stories by Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen (1517 Publishing 2018).
  5. Psalm 139 shows us God's loving care, for looking after us wherever we are.
  6. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  7. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  8. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  9. Grace comes for every foolish, self-absorbed sinner, for every “Nabal,” and announces that there is one who has already taken it upon himself to shoulder all of our wrongdoing, paying the price for it through the sacrifice of himself.
  10. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  11. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
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