Work of Christ (85)
  1. When we consider our own end, it will not bring us into a final wrestling match with the messenger of God, but into the embrace of the Messiah of God.
  2. This is the third in a series meant to let the Christian tradition speak for itself, the way it has carried Christians through long winters, confusion, and joy for centuries.
  3. American religion did not become optional because the gospel failed. It became optional because religion slowly redefined itself around usefulness.
  4. Christ did not merely urge humanity to be kind. He embodied perfect kindness by giving his life for those who neither earned nor expected such a gift.
  5. Was Jesus ambitious or unambitious? We have to say that the answer is…yes.
  6. When we fail, our first impulse is the same as that of our spiritual ancestors: to sprint headlong into the bushes.
  7. Just like Peter, you don’t need to do anything to earn God’s forgiveness for your soul wounds.
  8. While ambiguous “Christ-centeredness” by its very nature fragments Christianity by way of its subjectivism, Christological commitments beget unity or, at least, move strongly in that direction.
  9. You’re permitted to call on “Our Father, who art in heaven” at all hours of the day and night with whatever you like.
  10. We don’t flinch at sin. We speak Christ into it.
  11. You are a soul. Not an algorithm. Not a hashtag. A soul knit together by a God who does not mock, does not abandon, and does not lie.
  12. The Christ who rescues does not wait for you to be clean. He comes to clean you. He does not need your strength. He brings his own.
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