This is an excerpt from the third chapter of By Water and the Word: God’s Gift of Baptism for You by Brian Thomas (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 52-60.
04/30/26
Even when the bitter places sink down deep into our bones, the Restorer never relinquishes his grip on you.
04/28/26
To Live Well is therefore not a general advice book, but a message suffused with the gospel.
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Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
09/02/22
The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
09/01/22
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).
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08/29/22
Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
08/26/22
There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
08/22/22
The legal record of debt for our sin was canceled because Jesus satisfied the legal demands for us by his life, death, and resurrection.
08/19/22
Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
08/18/22
If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
08/17/22
Cranach became the evangelical interpreter for the masses
08/16/22
Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
08/15/22
There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
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