1. 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).
  2. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  3. We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”
  4. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  5. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  6. There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
  7. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  8. The God who abundantly restores is still in the business of total restoration, even today. Even now the God of heaven restores dead sinners to life.
  9. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
  10. Our Judge (the one who can condemn us) has become our Advocate (the one who doesn’t condemn us) because he is also our Substitute (the one who takes our condemnation).
  11. I want the beginning of my funeral to be focused on Jesus, as well as the middle, the end, and every point in between.
  12. This is the patient love of God. He is stubborn about the salvation of sinners. He will not be rushed even if his name is mocked, and the trustworthiness of his promises are called into question.