Caleb Berg

Jesus came to fulfill all righteousness for God's people. *all* That means there isn't any left to establish. And, that obedience can't be required in order to remain saved. Brothers and sisters, we're forever righteous before God. Don't listen to any claims to the contrary.

WIRTZ!!!! COME ONNN!!!!

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROBERTSON WHAT A FINISH. 2-0

ROBBO!!! WHAT A GOAL!!!

If our life is to be meaningful, really to matter, it must be extraordinary in some way. Extraordinary in the accumulation of wealth or landing a fantastic career, an athletic trophy, an academic accomplishment, or anything that puts us in the limelight, proclaiming, “Now, look, this person is a cut above the rest!” That’s the cultural “gospel,” anyway, that is preached from the pulpits of movies, television, and social media. But it’s all a sham. A sinister lie that leaves many people thinking their ordinary lives are void of meaning and purpose. The biblical teaching pushes back. God wants us to find joy in sacred simplicity and the ordinary gifts of life. For instance, in the book we've been reading the last couple of days in Bible in One Year, Ecclesiastes, we see this countercultural truth: “Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun for the few days of his life that God has given him” (5:18). What a refreshing truth this is! We find joy in simple things, such as God’s gift of food, drink, and work. We can expand this list to God’s gifts of spouse, children, and friendship. Climbing the ladder of success and assuming that will lead to a fulfilled life often lands the person on an upper level full of wheezing souls still chasing after the wind. Climb “downward” to the daily, ordinary beauty of marriage, children, grandchildren, friends. “Aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands” (1 Thess. 4:9). Kiss your spouse. Play a game with your kids. Go out to eat with your friends. Labor at work. God came to us as the man, Jesus, who got dirt under his fingernails, cooked fish over campfires, ate and drank with friends and students, and told stories about farming and sheep herding. Jesus did more than this, to be sure, but he did these ordinary things in everyday relationships, for that is where God is at work. The treasures of heaven are wrapped in the brown paper simplicities of life.

Jesus did not come to turn us into the kind of people God would've accepted in the first place on the basis of our own righteousness. Jesus did not send his Spirit so that we could keep the law adequately and, thereby, stand in the judgment. No, Jesus came to bear our sins in his body on the tree and to make satisfaction for them. He came to fulfill all righteousness and give us his. We stand in Christ alone now. We will stand in Christ alone on the last day.

Missions exists because God has a multitude to bring into his kingdom.

Reading the Bible? I encourage it. Understanding the Bible? Much better. (And that can only be done in context.) Seeing Christ in the Bible? The best. Through men, God authored the Bible. He did so to testify of Jesus Christ. May he be seen, embraced, trusted, and loved.

100th minute. Level on derby day... Step forward the skipper ✊🔴

The 39 instances of 'a pleasing aroma' across the Pentateuch pointed to Jesus Christ. "Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God." - Ephesians 5:1-2

THAT’LL DO, REDS!!!

The jubilant travelling Kop not in a hurry to go anywhere

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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL MO SALAH!!! The Tampa Reds are loving it 🔊🔴 @PLinUSA

You can be Slot out. You can disagree with things he does. You can criticize him all you want….you cannot be going to his kids social media and abusing them. Absolutely disgusting stuff to see. Be better. Be human. World is a mess already.

A little law/gospel for your Friday evening: Everything God requires in his law, he provides in his gospel through the work of Christ. The law demands everything and gives nothing, while the gospel demands nothing and gives everything. Wherever Scripture speaks of what we must do to be righteous before God, that is law. Wherever Scripture proclaims what God has done for sinners in Christ and freely gives to us, that is gospel. These two ‘words’ must be carefully distinguished—never confused or mixed—so that the gospel remains the good news that Christ saves sinners.

Just heard from friends in Ukraine about a Baptist Church intentionally struck by the Russians in Zaporizhzhia. A congregation of 300 who sacrificially built that building to meet for worship. At least 5 victims that we know of, including the pastor. When you read and hear about the war in Ukraine, don't forget that Russians intentionally target, jail, and often murder Baptist and evangelical pastors wherever they take over. Pray for our brave Christian brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Pray for Putin's reign of terror to end. Pray for peace.

Once you know you’re loved without condition, you stop dancing to the music of other people’s expectations. Their verdicts no longer stick. Their scales no longer matter. Their cages no longer hold.

We do not look inward to our works, our sincerity, or our spiritual progress as the basis of our standing before God. Instead, we look to the finished and objective work of Christ. Extra nos.