The places in our lives where we experience brokenness are the very places in which God is actively at work.
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What to the religious authorities appeared demonic, and what to Jesus’ own family was cause to fear for his sanity, was nothing less than God’s crazy love.
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Suffering and death are not signs of God’s absence but rather means through which God speaks, for God is no stranger to suffering or to death.
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To live according to the flesh is to labor under the expectation that we can climb our way up to God by doing things that God approves of.
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Evangelism is simply sharing how God has moved in your life. We all have a story to share.
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is wonderfully weird, especially when set against the ways of the world.
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To abide in the love of Jesus is simply to trust that we are who Jesus says that we are—his friends.
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It’s only the forgiveness of sins that we’ve received through Jesus Christ that has dragged us into God’s fold and made us insiders.
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The resurrection of Jesus from the dead means that in the eyes of God none of us are defined by our worst selves.
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Only One who was raised from the dead in the body could free our bodies from bondage to sin and death.
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Therefore, to walk in the light, as John encourages, is to be honest about who we are…sinners forever in need of God’s grace.
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Far from a metaphor, the resurrection of Jesus has weight and substance, mass and volume, flesh and bone and blood.
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The son of David doesn’t come to the holy city with an army but rather with arms that will be stretched out upon a Roman cross.
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In the new covenant, it is God who takes all the initiative and assumes all the responsibility.
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Whether or not a temple made of stone stands in Jerusalem, God is with the people
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To be bound in covenant with the life-giving, liberating God is to be set free to live as God’s covenant people.
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In the name of love, God Almighty binds himself to frail humanity, not for a while, mind you, but for ever.
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If God’s bow is ever again to be drawn, the arrows will be directed toward God, not human beings.
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In the ash we also see the mark of the cross, a cross that marks us as God’s own.
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Listening to Jesus. That is the primary task of a disciple. Everything else is secondary—evangelism, social justice, and even the church itself.
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