1. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  2. Our God is a living God and he listens to our cries for help.
  3. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  4. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  5. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  6. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  7. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  8. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  9. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  10. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.