Jesus Is ______: Find a New Way to Be Human

by Judah Smith

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

The good news is that Jesus came to reveal a God who defines us not by our actions but by his love.

I need to remember that I am still desperately in need of Jesus’s grace.

The fact that Jesus is a friend of sinners is good news for me.

Focusing too much on rules and too little on grace tells children that what they do is more important than who they are.

Grace wasn’t free for Jesus. It cost him everything. That is precisely why we should receive it freely. The most insulting thing we could do is reject this costly gift and say, “No thanks, God, I got this.”

Yet I saw that the wise and the foolish share the same fate. Both will die.

God came down of his own initiative, in his own power, on the basis of his own righteousness, motivated by his own love, and he saved us. That’s good news!

It’s not about how much we love God. It’s about how much he loves us.

“How good does God need to be to you before you’re happy?”

Because Jesus lives, I can live differently. I can act and react from a place of peace and an attitude of assurance.

The devil is a liar. Sin is defeated. God is for us, Jesus is with us, and his grace is sufficient.