1. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  2. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  3. Toy Story is indeed a Christmas story.
  4. The good news of the Gospel is Jesus has come, and Jesus will come again.
  5. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  6. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  7. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  8. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  9. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!