God wants to celebrate with us the joy of our salvation that Jesus accomplished for us on the cross.
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We must not hear “repent or perish” as an ultimatum but as an invitation.
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Patience with God is central to Christian faith. In some sense, it is faith.
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The devil wants Jesus to use his relationship with the Father not in service to the world but in service to himself.
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The good news is that God is on our side, so much so that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.
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We want a savior who will fight for us, but we need a savior who will die for us.
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When we are grateful for what Christ accomplished on the cross, we hear the command to love our enemies very differently.
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We are not good people in need of improvement, we are dead in sin and in need of resurrection.
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The church of God doesn’t have a mission, the mission of God has a church.
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If we are truly to be the church of Jesus Christ, then we are called to show mercy, even—and I would add, especially—to the wrong kind of people.
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Jesus, quite literally, is the life of the party…he has come to give us life…and that life is one of joy.
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God will pay any price to ransom us from the grip of sin and death.
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The darkness that had enveloped the exiles, that had seemed so impenetrable, must now give way to the everlasting light of God’s love.
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When you are clothed with Christ, you are dressed for every occasion.
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There is no length that God will not go, no depth to which God will not descend, in order to redeem you.
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Two marginalized, pregnant women—one young and unwed, the other beyond the age to conceive—these are the people God chooses to put God’s plan of salvation into action.
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God has taken away all of the judgments against us and taken them upon himself.
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The judgment of the Lord is a fearsome thing, but it is also a thing to be welcomed…because the one who is our judge is also our redeemer.
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While it’s Christmas that the song says is the most wonderful time of the year, Advent is extraordinary time, a time in which God’s promise of salvation is proclaimed to everyone in exile.
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Revelation reminds us that as the Alpha and the Omega, God is for us from beginning to end.
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