While it's important to recognize we need NO other mediators between God save for Christ Alone, we need to recognize WHY even with right teaching, we create our own personal buffers and confessionals: the magnitude of your salvation - and sin - in the face of Christ Alone is humbling, disarming, and hopefully equipping as we flee from sin to our Savior.

While it's important to recognize we need NO other mediators between God save for Christ Alone, we need to recognize WHY even with right teaching, we create our own personal buffers and confessionals: the magnitude of your salvation - and sin - in the face of Christ Alone is humbling, disarming, and hopefully equipping as we flee from sin to our Savior.

JUSTIFIED - a word we might use for SEVERAL things, yet an essential understanding of our relationship with God that means EVERYthing. Without biblical justification, we are truly lost.

Thoughts on the internal combustion engine, dirty chai, used car sales and how this relates to being saved by GRACE alone, a fundamental and repeatedly tainted tenet of our faith.

What holds primary authority in your life? Beyond God's Word, should Christians recognize ANY other authority? In 1517 the danger was ultimate authority in the wrong hands, leading to a recovery of "Sola Scriptura"... but too often it's in the wrong hands now when we practice SOLO scriptura.

Christians say "Jesus died for my sins" often... and do they skate past that word "died" a little more than they should? We take a moment to ponder crucifixion and John's uniquely recorded pieces of it in Chapter 19.

It's the bottom of the 9th as Jesus, Judas, and Peter take their turns at bat. Spoiler alert: two step up to the plate and strike out, while the other is The Natural... but who's called "in" and who's called "out" shakes things up.

Jesus' prayer for his disciples - then and now - contains 4 gifts and 4 goals... and it's important we understand and embrace them!

God precedes Groot with a metaphor for his intertwined and grafted family, and provides atypical comfort by prophesying how he - and we - will be hated.

How do we do as scripture asks and "make our calling and election sure?" Well, first we have to know what these things mean, and then "how" comes into view, thanks to Christ.