Sinner and Saint (Simul) (97)
  1. Here is someone to love; they’re not a Christian. They’re not very clean and don’t seem to care. Love them. Let your life become intertwined with theirs. Let it cost you something.
  2. This is an excerpt from the introduction of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted written by Gretchen Ronnevik (1517 Publishing, 2021), 122-125. Now available for preorder.
  3. Our anxiety about the future is a consequence of our old self’s attempts to achieve freedom for himself apart from Christ Jesus.
  4. Love continues to gently but endlessly pursue the narrator, despite his persistence in pulling away in the opposite direction.
  5. This new life is marked not by fear of death but hope in eternal life.
  6. Satan and the old Adam don't want Jesus to bear our crosses for us because that means we can't claim that we've done anything to merit God's mercy and salvation.
  7. The only reason we're aware of our old self is in baptism, God created a new self for us.
  8. In spiritual matters, the Scriptures teach us that freedom is tied to slavery and bondage.
  9. Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
  10. Jesus is a real person talking to you and feeding you, which is beyond intellectual Christianity!
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