Memorial Church of Christ Blog

Spiritual certainty is not the same as spiritual health. The question is whether our security rests in God’s mercy or in our own sense of being right.

Scripture describes transformation with final language: putting off, putting to death, burying. New life cannot thrive where old things are still being protected.

Matthew opens with a list of names most readers skim. That list is the point: Jesus entered history with roots, relationships, and promises generations old.

Later, when life slows down. The assumption sounds responsible, but the problem is not planning — it is presuming ownership of time.