By Jason Oakland

07/11/25

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Peace Be With You

‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress

Kathy Morales

07/10/25

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress

This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.

Bradley Gray

07/09/25

Inception and the Paradox of Grace

Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.

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Bradley Gray

05/04/23

Come and Dine

How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?

Bradley Gray

04/20/23

Through Fire and Through Water

The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.

Bradley Gray

04/04/23

The Faithful Priest and Our Finished Atonement

You are not alone if you find it difficult to wrap your mind around the auspices of the Old Testament sacrificial system.

Bradley Gray

03/13/23

The Fragrance of Faithful Ministry

Nothing moves or drives Paul more than preaching about “Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2).

Bradley Gray

03/07/23

And I Will Give You Rest

The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.

Bradley Gray

01/31/23

Remembered and Redeemed

Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.

Bradley Gray

01/25/23

Consider Jesus

All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.

Bradley Gray

01/18/23

The Body of God and the Scandal of Our Dying Brother

The gospel's message is the scandalous announcement that Yahweh has stooped to our frame, to where we are.

Bradley Gray

01/11/23

What Can Wash Away My Sin?

Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.

Bradley Gray

01/05/23

Jesus is Better

As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."

Bradley Gray

11/21/22

Refreshment for the Depressed Soul

Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.

Bradley Gray

11/10/22

Jesus, Thank You

The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.

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