1. This is an excerpt from “All Charges Dropped! Devotional Narratives from Earthly Courtrooms to the Throne of Grace,” written by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2022).
  2. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  3. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  4. There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
  5. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  6. The God who abundantly restores is still in the business of total restoration, even today. Even now the God of heaven restores dead sinners to life.
  7. Our Judge (the one who can condemn us) has become our Advocate (the one who doesn’t condemn us) because he is also our Substitute (the one who takes our condemnation).
  8. Excerpt #3 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  9. Excerpt #2 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  10. Excerpt #1 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  11. The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
  12. Is the serpent in Genesis 3 just a snake or Satan? Does the Hebrew refer to "the satan" or "Satan"? And does it make a difference? Let's take a look at the Old Testament, early Jewish literature, and the New Testament for the answers.