This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.
On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.
We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.

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The legal record of debt for our sin was canceled because Jesus satisfied the legal demands for us by his life, death, and resurrection.
If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
As is often the case in Scripture, creation is about a renewed, restored, and redeemed relationship with the Creator.
God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
Cyril’s fervor for pure explication of the gospel was present throughout his career.
Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
Moses is no Jesus but he, like us, is saved by Him. The law cannot enter the promised land, and yet the true and greater promised land is occupied by nothing but lawbreakers.