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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We don’t come to church to learn how to live. We come to church to learn how to die.
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All of these voices swirl in our head, a cacophony of chaos, lies, and confusion. They whisper that we are unloved and unlovable.
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But to answer Jesus’s invitation to discipleship is to leave the safety of the boat altogether. It’s to step out in faith…without a safety net.
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God has a word for you. And that Word is Jesus. In Jesus Christ, God says to us in no uncertain terms that God is for us.
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Jesus gets down and dirty with the worst and weakest parts of ourselves, the parts that we don’t want to acknowledge and that we try to keep hidden.
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Jesus overthrows the old order…of might makes right, the order of an eye for an eye, the order of the first ensuring that the last would always remain that way.
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