1. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  2. 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).
  3. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  4. Just like for Mordecai and Esther, our lives are also sustained by the hand of God in the ordinary, in events begging to be seen as the work of Christ in our lives.
  5. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  6. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  7. This hymn is not for people who feel strong, but those who are weak.
  8. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  9. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  10. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  11. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  12. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.