1. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  2. The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
  3. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  4. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  5. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
  6. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  7. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  8. 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.
  9. In the Reformation, as in the tabernacle, God gave skill, artistry, and craftsmanship to put his Word in images so that through art, his Word would be revealed.
  10. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  11. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).