God’s justice and mercy means that everyone should be treated rightly and fairly. At the same time, it also means that special care, attention, and generosity should be shown toward the poor, the weak, and the vulnerable of society.

Sin, injustice, and evil work interpersonally and relationally, but they also work institutionally, structurally, and systemically in society. However, God’s redemptive grace also works interpersonally and relationally as well as institutionally, structurally, and systemically in society through the establishment of God’s kingdom.

Sin, injustice, and evil are both individual and communal, and even generational. However, God’s redemptive grace is also individual, communal, and even generational through the outworking of his covenant.

God’s kingdom of justice and mercy has already arrived and yet is not fully here. Therefore, we should be hopeful but also patient.

God is just and merciful, and he calls his people to be just and merciful—the kind of people who love the sojourner.

When set in the context of God’s larger story, justice and mercy are much more relational, robust, and restorative than we’re used to.

God is just and merciful, and his justice and mercy are perfectly expressed in the cross. Therefore, he is our ultimate confidence and hope.

In the final scene of John’s Gospel, Jesus graciously restores Peter after his failure and then commissions him to be a shepherd to the others.

The risen Christ comes and stands among his people in the midst of their sorrows, fears, and doubts.