When your sin puts you in the depths of despair, and you have no way out on your own, there is a God above who rules and reigns and forgives and saves.

Racism refuses to acknowledge the equality and dignity or your neighbor, much less love them as you love yourself. 

I let the original intent of the passage sting me, move me, drive me to what I need to be.

Friends, none of us feels exactly what we ought to feel. But thank God we have a Bible that tells us the truth even if we can’t do the same thing for ourselves.

Though the Scripture may be shown to be trustworthy by many historical and logical proofs, it is essentially received as true because of the revelation of God’s glory experienced through it.

We must have strong hermeneutical standards, but those hermeneutical standards are wrecked if we do not begin with all of Scripture being God-breathed.

I don’t deserve mercy; I deserve judgment. I deserve quick, exacting, unrelenting, justice. 

Praise the Lord that our eternity hinges not on our ability to live out a “therefore,” but on Jesus’ righteous life on our behalf.

Scripture is not about you; it is about Jesus. Scripture is, however, for you through the work of Jesus.