The church is not renewed when one pastor tries to do the work of the whole body. The church is renewed when Christ’s body begins to act like a body again.
This is what Christian catechesis does; it turns the knobs of the Scriptures and throws the doors of God’s word wide open to tell us the story of salvation.
Christianity isn’t simply a tool to fix social, spiritual, or economic problems. Its claims are much larger, touching upon truth itself and therefore all things and all people.

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Chains may have restricted Paul, but nothing can restrict the gospel.
This is an excerpt from part two of “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
Grace comes for every foolish, self-absorbed sinner, for every “Nabal,” and announces that there is one who has already taken it upon himself to shoulder all of our wrongdoing, paying the price for it through the sacrifice of himself.
The Bible not only calls us to remember God’s past acts of deliverance; it also invites us to recognize that God in Christ is still in the business of delivering sinners from bondage.
His successes were not the result of his brilliance, might, and ability as an apostle. They were the result of the all-sufficient grace of God.
No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?
The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
You are not alone if you find it difficult to wrap your mind around the auspices of the Old Testament sacrificial system.
Nothing moves or drives Paul more than preaching about “Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2).
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.