Sin (90)
  1. Yes, how good it is for you to have enemies, for without them, when would you ever have the opportunity to fulfill, joyfully and willingly, the law of Christian love?
  2. God’s Son is infinitely more than our fragile egos have flattened him out to be.
  3. The dragon who failed to devour the child in the manger swallows the man atop the cross. In so doing, unbeknownst to this beast, he ate poison.
  4. In those waters we are nailed to his cross and washed out the door of his tomb. Within his wounds we safely hide.
  5. I don’t care why you left the ministry—moral failure, congregational politics, burnout, whatever—the Christ whom you proclaimed has not left you.
  6. Hear that confession of saving faith? Rahab may have been a prostitute in Jericho, but she was secretly a virgin daughter of Yahweh.
  7. You became, for a time, ritually unclean. Not sinful. Not immoral. To be unclean meant you bore in your own body the effects of a creation in bondage to decay.
  8. All our little laws reveal that we are, by nature, trying to justify ourselves before others, and before God, based on what we do and who we are.
  9. The flower of youth, as lovely as it is, cannot withstand the hot winds of time. There is a beauty, however, that remains.
  10. In happiness, we dare never forget that it is Christ, and Christ alone, who has restored our joy.
  11. Although I was too young to have mastered the skill of lying, I also knew that I couldn’t tell this woman the truth.
  12. 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.
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