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. While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
  4. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  5. 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.
  6. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  7. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  8. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  9. 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?
  10. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  11. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  12. 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.