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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At the crossroads…that is one place where the wisdom of God appears to us. Another would be on the cross. As much as the wisdom of God cries out from the crossroads, so too does the wisdom of God cry out from the cross.
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Pentecost is about the Spirit breathing life into a band of disciples that the world had assumed were as good as dead.
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Salvation is not a hard-fought goal that we strive to achieve; it’s a gift that we hold out our hands to receive.
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Sometimes God will close one door—usually the door that we want to go through—only to open another door—often one that we hadn’t even considered.
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This passage is not about what kind of food is served on the table but rather the God who makes room at the table for everyone.
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Life can be an ordeal. No one knows this more than our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who endured the ordeal of the cross,
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God does not call the qualified, God qualifies those whom God calls.
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There is power in what we believe…resurrecting power.
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The question “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” suggests that the real story is not the empty tomb but the living Christ.
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The road that Jesus chooses truly does make all the difference…for himself, for his disciples, for us, and for everyone everywhere.
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