Jesus has died for us, not to make our old sins permissible, but to make our new obedience possible.
Jesus Christ needs to remain at the center of our faith, because it’s all too easy for us to come up with a distorted version of Christianity that fixates on something else.
The fact that God declares us to be righteous with the unshakeable righteousness of Christ, all through faith – it is an incredible gift.
Is anything too hard for the LORD?
Even if we abandoned our houses and bodies and brains and our playthings, and we stooped down to take on the form of pond scum – even then, we would not have humbled ourselves as much as Jesus Christ did.
God doesn’t just preserve us by putting a big, plexiglass dome over the sapling of our faith – but he preserves us by growing our faith into a mature tree, that can withstand windstorms and winters.
What is wisdom? And why should we pursue it?
Being a cabin boy on a luxury cruise liner is much better than being the captain of a sinking rowboat.
It’s by faith in his name that this man was made well. And it’s by faith in his name that you will find wholeness and restoration, as well.
Jesus Christ is the firstborn of all creation, not because he is born or created first in time, but because God has designated Christ as Lord and heir.