Redemption (96)
  1. Whether we realize it or not, all these online, self-editing actions are nothing more than our admission that we believe that we are so deeply flawed that no one will love us just as we are.
  2. Chad Bird joined the Thinking Fellows at the Here We Still Stand conference in San Diego to talk about his new book.
  3. This book tells of my long and brutal journey. From married to divorced. From a seminary professor and pastor to a disgraced, bitter truck driver in the oil fields of Texas. From a man at war with God to a child redeemed by grace.
  4. We all desperately need God’s only Son to take our place, to cleanse us by His blood, to wipe away our evil deeds.
  5. Just when we think we had it all under control, Christ breaks into the midst of our futile efforts to save ourselves.
  6. The only recourse we have is to die before we die. To give up on a fake-life. To acknowledge that this stupid, selfish game we’re playing with our immortality projects has zero success.
  7. The story of Christ crucified has a happy ending. Jesus has conquered the grave. He beat the death rap.
  8. She wasn’t so much giving up on her husband as giving up on herself. She was giving up trying to be the person who changes another person. It was going to take more than her to reform the man she loved.
  9. The story did not end with Jesus' death and resurrection, or even with the Acts of the Apostles.
  10. I take out the broom, spray bottle, and trash can. For the hundredth time this week, I find myself sweeping up the mess of a Christmas to come.
  11. The redeemed are dressed in white robes.
  12. You matter so much to God that he would rather die than lose you. You matter so much to Jesus that no suffering was too much, no deprivation too burdensome, no punishment too severe for him to endure to have you as his own.
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