1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. The Bible not only calls us to remember God’s past acts of deliverance; it also invites us to recognize that God in Christ is still in the business of delivering sinners from bondage.
  4. One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
  5. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  6. 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.
  7. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  8. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  9. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  10. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  11. Walther’s living legacy is his enduring teaching on how to distinguish the law and the gospel in the Church’s proclamation.