Righteousness (160)
  1. I love the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. So much is communicated in those few verses.
  2. All family trees and genealogies reveal awkward knots and twists. But through the root of Jesse, and the line of Israel, came Jesus to offer us a new name.
  3. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.” We hear those words on the lips of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. But, too often we misunderstand what he’s saying.
  4. Our enoughness before God cannot be earned by our piety or bestowed by our neighbor. Our righteousness and our justification come from Christ and His work for us
  5. Both these words, Law and Gospel, are from God. The sinner needs both of them. Both are true and good.
  6. John’s message doesn’t inspire religious leaders to repent. Instead, John’s message provokes them to resentment and rage.
  7. The death and resurrection of our Lord has indeed removed the power of all these things. But they remain for now, even so.
  8. On this day, the church remembers all the saints who have gone before us.
  9. Nobody is going to crash Jesus’ wedding feast. Jesus is throwing the only party in town worth attending, and it’s going to be a celebration.
  10. The thing seems incredible, and I would not have believed it myself, nor have understood Paul’s words here, had I not witnessed it with my own eyes and experienced it.
  11. On the cross, God removed the load of every single one of your sins and placed it instead on Christ. Then, He clothed you with the fullness of His holiness and perfection.
  12. I told him that God does not have two types of sheep. God does not have a fold of black, and another white. God only has a fold made up entirely of black sheep because He knows the truth about us.
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