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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09/04/22
The heart of your sermon is the promise that God, in Jesus, has sought and found each of us. He receives us sinners and invites us to eat with Him at His table.
08/31/22
The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
08/30/22
A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
08/28/22
The reason nothing can come before Jesus is because nothing endures beyond the grave except for Jesus.
08/25/22
Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
08/24/22
The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
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.
08/21/22
In the text, Jesus enters a Pharisee’s house for dinner. Between the invitation and the meal, however, Jesus transforms this man’s home into a place of God’s care.
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.
08/14/22
When offering encouragement to His disciples to follow Him, Jesus did not promise a pain-free life in this world. Instead, He highlighted the struggle and the difficulty. Why?
08/12/22
God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
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