Sinner and Saint (Simul) (72)
  1. It's a new year, and you are still the same you: a sinner who is simultaneously perfect in every way because Christ declares it to be so.
  2. Show me a sinner, and I’ll write you a story of a God who saves them.
  3. Jacob is given the gospel afresh right when he needed it and it is because of this gospel that his faith is stirred up anew.
  4. The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.
  5. Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.
  6. The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
  7. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  8. While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
  9. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  10. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  11. I can guarantee you that when Paul was overtaken by the Spirit and inspired to write these words, he did not have in mind your local school's boys' basketball tournament.
  12. You’re not new because of what you do. You’re new and so you do new things, even in spite of yourself, because of your sinful nature.
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