Righteousness (168)
  1. Without the “simul” distinction, theology lapses into moralism.
  2. Christ exchanged His excellent love, His wonderful heart, for my shameful adultery with you.
  3. 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.
  4. To lose a leader like this is always too soon!
  5. The words “gift of righteousness” will bring about two completely polar opposite feelings: One of Dread. One of Relief.
  6. The Devil cultivates fear of God and promotes motivation and zeal for outward works and earthly virtue out of pure eternal self-concern.
  7. An orphan girl lives a monotonous life filled with loneliness serving as a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters.
  8. The conversation between four year-old Jackson and his mom in the car after dropping off his siblings at school was all-too-typical.
  9. Abraham didn’t understand God very well (at least not early on). I don’t say that as a dig against the Patriarch. I don’t think any of us understand God very well either.
  10. God in Jesus takes off your shirt of shame, your bitterness, your anger, your guilt, your hopelessness, and drapes these rags on himself.
  11. Have you ever heard of Spanx? Although they’ve only been around since 2010, their predecessors have been around for centuries.
  12. True faith, saving faith that receives the good news about the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world is a faith created in us by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel.
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