Dead to Sin: Breaking Free by the Spirit
When someone says, “You’re dead to me!” it means they want nothing to do with you anymore. Being dead to sin is like that.
Lightweights: Training for Truth Without Excuse
Whatever you do, don’t lean on Jesus as an excuse to stay weak. We should be using our light afflictions to allow Jesus to strengthen us to handle the full weight of glory!
Negative Navigations: Correcting Our Immoral Compass
Everyone has become corrupt, like when your computer crashes. It hasn’t lost its value; it just can’t do you any good. Because its operating system has become corrupted.
Rigor Mortar: Hard Hearts in God’s Hands
Like a potter’s clay, we need to put ourselves in His hands every morning, to be kneaded and molded and slowly made holy.
Faithworks: Balancing Faith, Grace, and Works
Living, growing, fruit-producing faith requires what I’m calling “faithworks”. Like fireworks. Because without faithworks there’s nothing to see.
Trust Fund: Credited with Christ’s Righteousness
It’s our father Abraham’s faith that first reveals that our righteousness is not our own, it’s the Lord’s. And now our sins are not on us, they’re on the cross.
Lawbreakers at Heart: Breaking the Curse of the Law
The law doesn’t reward its followers, it only punishes its violators. That’s what Paul calls the curse of the law.
Foremost Foreshadow: Circumcision of the Heart
It doesn’t matter if it’s circumcision, catechism, confirmation, or communion: At best, the ritual can only reflect the reality.
Don’t Settle for Pseudo: Overcoming Superficial Spirituality
Don’t settle for superficial renewal and pseudo transformation. Keep going and growing until you’re so alert, loving, and sober-minded that people can smell it on you!