This is an excerpt from the sixth chapter of Fear Not: How the Gospel Disrupts Our Deepest Anxieties by Luke Kjolhaug (1517 Publishing, 2026).
We draw near because Christ our Mediator has gone where we never could, and he has brought us with him.
The Israelite God was different from all the other gods, thus, the worship of Yahweh differed from that of all other gods.

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The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
This is an excerpt from “All Charges Dropped! Devotional Narratives from Earthly Courtrooms to the Throne of Grace,” written by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2022).
There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
There is power in the name of Jesus, and we love to manipulate power for our own ends.
Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
Gregory is a bridge between the patristic age and the medieval.
Cyril’s fervor for pure explication of the gospel was present throughout his career.
We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.