1. The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
  2. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  3. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  4. This is an excerpt from chapter 9 of “What Can Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding” by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  5. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  6. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  7. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  8. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  9. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  10. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  11. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  12. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.