1. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  2. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  3. The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
  4. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  5. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  6. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
  7. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  8. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  9. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  10. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.