Righteousness (155)
  1. In this episode of Tough Texts, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price look into the parable of the Sheep and the Goats from Matthew 25:31-46.
  2. The world rushes forward, lighting up screens and decking out storefronts in a mad sprint toward the next thing, but Advent pulls us back.
  3. We love hearing about Jesus, but we also love hearing about how much effort we need to exert to truly pull off this whole “Christian life” thing.
  4. 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.
  5. This article is part of Stephen Paulson’s series on the Psalms.
  6. No amount of ritual, sacrifice, devotion, or money could ever do what Jesus of Nazareth was sent to accomplish.
  7. Show me a sinner, and I’ll write you a story of a God who saves them.
  8. The difference between God's gospel and man's could not be greater.
  9. Reconciliation with God affirms the worth of our persons, and it banishes the inhibitions and fears, as well as the resentments and desire for revenge, which create gulches between us and those around us.
  10. To obtain this righteousness, you have to admit you don’t have it and could never produce it on your own because you are unrighteous.
  11. The central message of Christianity is not a worldview, a way of life, or a program for personal or societal change; it is a person and the message of the cross.
  12. This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of Clothed with Christ written by Brian W. Thomas (1517 Publishing, 2024). Now available!
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