So conflicted: I LOVE this video @emschumacher and I did for our upcoming book “Jesus and Gender” but it kills me to watch myself and know you all will see what a nerd I am. https://t.co/LFYqA2GwPM
Well. I might regret this but here goes: if Eve was created w a nature that is easily deceived, then Adam was right to complain about her to God. That false teaching actually denigrates not only my nature but also God’s goodness and wisdom and the efficacy of the atonement.
Friends: I acknowledge that everyone has the right to say what they want on social media. But, please, please remember that your black and brown sisters and brothers in Christ are reading what you’re saying. And they’re trying to believe the best about you but they’re hurting.
Self justification and self crucifixion will never been enough- to make us eternally right or whole. The only death that leads to life, is the death we die with Christ. Prentending to be God will always lead us to a dead end, with no way out but repentance.
The One who taught us to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” went hungry in the desert.
The One who taught us to pray, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” had our sins put on Him while He prayed, “Father, forgive them.” (1)
Job says, “The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”
But Job also says, “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’”
Amens, anger, & anguish swirl inside the faithful. And God will accept them all.
I’ve lived long enough to know what I want out of life. My aim is to live & love in imitation of Jesus. Though I daily fail, I’m resolute in the pursuit. It is not that I do not care what you think or what that looks like to you. It’s that I care incomparably more what He thinks.
The most popular way to water down the Good News into *potentially* Good News is to treat it as a tit-for-tat between us and God.
•Because we hand repentance to God, he gives forgiveness.
•Because we drag our pig-stinking, prodigal self home, God comes running out to meet us.
"He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” Psalm 23:3. How many years did I read this with no attention to the truth that God was acting for the glory of his name? As in Psalm 106:8, “He saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.”
⬆️ Devotional excerpt from the entry titled “Confession.” We're creating something beautiful with some amazing collaborators here: https://t.co/13Sr7SKmMk