Righteousness (160)
  1. This is the fifth installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 9 and 10 by Caleb Keith.
  2. The following is an excerpt from A Path Strewn with Sinners: A Devotional Study of Mark’s Gospel and His Race to the Cross written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2017).
  3. I can pretend for a little bit, but as soon as the phone is put away and it’s just me and my sin, I am fearful about what my walk says about me. I know what I should do, but I can’t quite seem to do it.
  4. In the first few years after God saved me I saw sin as this unfortunate parasite that was slowly sucking the life out of me.
  5. Without the “simul” distinction, theology lapses into moralism.
  6. Christ exchanged His excellent love, His wonderful heart, for my shameful adultery with you.
  7. Freedom from the Law does not come through personal perfection, it comes through Jesus Christ. The answer is not a better you, but a you who is united to God through Christ.
  8. To lose a leader like this is always too soon!
  9. The words “gift of righteousness” will bring about two completely polar opposite feelings: One of Dread. One of Relief.
  10. The Devil cultivates fear of God and promotes motivation and zeal for outward works and earthly virtue out of pure eternal self-concern.
  11. An orphan girl lives a monotonous life filled with loneliness serving as a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters.
  12. The conversation between four year-old Jackson and his mom in the car after dropping off his siblings at school was all-too-typical.
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