You are not the hero of this story. Jesus is. And he has rescued you from the power of darkness and transferred you into his kingdom.
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Whereas the world sees suffering as something to be avoided, if at all possible, the Christian—through the power of the Holy Spirit—sees in suffering an opportunity.
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As Christians, we don’t believe in the immortality of the soul; we believe in resurrection.
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Repentance is not a prerequisite to forgiveness…it’s a spontaneous and joyful response to the radical reorienting grace of the gospel.
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We don’t need religion. What we need is faith. A faith in something beyond ourselves. A faith in the God who raises the dead.
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The one who hears our plea is not a corrupt judge but our crucified Savior.
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As followers of Christ, we walk in the Samaritan’s footsteps. Our faith, our gratitude, put us on a different course.
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As with so many things, when it comes to waiting, our faith in Jesus Christ places us at odds with the wider culture.
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Far from being indicators of God’s absence, suffering and death are the very means that God uses to secure our salvation.
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Grace comes into this story through what the world regards as disreputable.
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But rather than thinking in this legalistic way of righteous vs sinners, we ought to understand ourselves first and foremost as lost.
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Who is the Holy Spirit challenging us to see in the transformative light of the gospel…not as some category of person but as a brother or sister in Christ?
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We come [to the banquet] empty handed because we have nothing to give to the God who gave himself for us.
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The truth is that we are all crooked. We are all bent by the weight of life’s burdens and of our own sin.
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A crucified Savior who dies for sinners may not be the Word of God that we want to hear, but he is absolutely the Word of God that we need to hear.
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We need…in this moment and in every moment…to find our center, our sustenance, our sanity, and our sanctity in the Lord who invites us to find rest in his presence.
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Where once we were measured by the imposing and impossible standards of the law, in Christ’s death we have received the full measure of God’s grace.
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What the world regards as of little value is the means through which God does not only great things but good things.
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We’re not truly free unless we see our neighbor’s welfare as our own welfare, our neighbor’s suffering as our own suffering.
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Just as God’s wisdom appears to the world as foolishness, and God’s strength looks to the world like weakness, so God’s voice sounds to the world like silence.
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