Salvation (88)
  1. In happiness, we dare never forget that it is Christ, and Christ alone, who has restored our joy.
  2. There are many funeral songs I wouldn’t be caught dead singing. Why? Because my funeral will not be about me.
  3. Dear church, do not get sidetracked. This is about far more than terrorism, racism, gun ownership, and the like. This is about the evil of the human heart.
  4. There is no pain like the pain of being mistreated by those who, above all others, you expect to love you unconditionally.
  5. No, when the Lord is ready for battle, of all creatures, he commissions Mary’s little lamb.
  6. I became like God’s child David, whom the Lord pardoned of his adultery and murder. I became like Noah, Abraham, Judah, Aaron, Gideon, and so many more wayward children.
  7. The first person who attempted to stop people from talking about Jesus was not a tyrant, a secular government, or a bully religious mob.
  8. We spend the first nine months of our lives in utter darkness. There are no tiny fluorescent bulbs beaming from the ceiling of the womb, no fetal flashlights, not even a pinprick of illumination.
  9. We hang on to our sins not despite the fact that they hurt, but precisely because they do hurt. We need to hurt, to fret over them, to cry over them, to make amends over them, because by doing so, we will grease the wheels of God’s forgiveness.
  10. I looked up at the cross and saw what God had become to bring me home. He had become what I was.
  11. What is really good for the soul is not so much confession as absolution. If confession is us telling the truth about ourselves to God, then absolution is God telling us a truer truth about ourselves.
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