1. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  2. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  6. 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).
  7. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  8. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  9. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.