1. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  2. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  3. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  4. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  5. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  6. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  7. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  8. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  9. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
  10. This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  11. The gospel tells me that the revelation of weakness in myself, my husband, and my son is the occasion for the revelation of God’s strength.
  12. We may not all be mass-murdering Nazis. But we all have the same root sin that causes the most egregious criminal activity on the face of the earth. We all have the desire to be our own God.