1. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  2. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  3. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  4. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  5. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  6. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  7. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  8. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
  9. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  10. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.