1. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  2. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  3. In whatever direction the bias of men might be, from thence he might recall them, and teach them of his own true Father, as he himself says: I came to save and to find that which was lost.
  4. 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.
  5. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  6. 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.
  7. You’re not new because of what you do. You’re new and so you do new things, even in spite of yourself, because of your sinful nature.
  8. 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).
  9. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”