Righteousness (167)
  1. A truly Christian work is it that we descend and get mixed up in the mire of the sinner as deeply as he sticks there himself.
  2. Jesus Christ has finished his work of delivering you from the consequences of your sins and the brokenness of this fallen world.
  3. What is supposed to be given by Christ through us for neighbor is used up by us, twisted for our righteous gain.
  4. All God's fatherly goodness and mercy is concrete and real, born of a virgin, crucified for our trespasses, raised for our justification.
  5. Our righteousness and the righteousness of our neighbor have nothing to do with what we eat or do not eat.
  6. Naturally each individual forgets the beam in his own eye and perceives only the mote in his neighbor’s. One will not bear with the faults of the other; each requires perfection of his fellow.
  7. My earliest memory of seeing a cartoonist drawing of Adam and Eve was in the waiting room at the pediatrician’s office. I probably had the flu. Sitting with my mom- I was waiting for the nurse to come and call our name. Also, I was hoping that I wouldn’t get a shot.
  8. I love the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. So much is communicated in those few verses.
  9. 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.
  10. “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.
  11. 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
  12. Both these words, Law and Gospel, are from God. The sinner needs both of them. Both are true and good.
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