Righteousness (11)
  1. 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.
  2. No amount of ritual, sacrifice, devotion, or money could ever do what Jesus of Nazareth was sent to accomplish.
  3. The difference between God's gospel and man's could not be greater.
  4. The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.
  5. Like Jacob, sinners approach the Heavenly Father wearing the clothes of their older brother, Jesus.
  6. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  7. What is it, though, that makes bedtime so fraught with anxiety?
  8. If sin is only a matter of “doing,” then “undoing” and/or “redoing” would serve as the equivalent savior necessary to find redemption.
  9. Righteousness by yourself is not just hard, it is impossible. It does not come about by your purity, your activity, or your loyalty. It comes through one thing: faith.
  10. I don’t know much about golf, but I do know that The Masters is like the Super Bowl for golfers.
  11. As an avid movie-goer, one of the ways Scripture comes alive for me is to picture the stories as if they were scenes and beats from a live-action movie.