When standing in line, or when the commercial comes on, or when a moment of boredom comes, fast and pray instead of reaching for the screen. Be reminded that the world is not an oyster to be shucked, but a place where the gifts of redemption are already open.
Prayer is only possible because Jesus has given you access to the Father through His shed blood. Prayer is a gift purchased for you by Christ.

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Kyle G. Jones gives a broad primer on what apologetics is, what it hopes to accomplish, and its limitations.
In this piece, 1517’s Director of Publishing, Steve Byrnes, shares a personal story about a period of doubt in his life that eventually was replaced with confidence through God’s provision, and the care of the Christian community.
Theology and history go hand in hand in the real person of Jesus Christ, making the truth of the Gospels profoundly human and powerfully meaningful.
This is an edited excerpt from the conclusion of The Resurrection Fact: Responding to Modern Critics, edited by John Bombaro and Adam Francisco. (1517 Publishing, 2016).
Prior sees much of evangelicalism’s imaginary trouble arising from the fact that it emphasizes quick and dramatic conversion experiences and a personally directed relationship with God.
Chains may have restricted Paul, but nothing can restrict the gospel.
The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
If we believe that ours is truly the greatest story ever told, then we must share that story in creative ways and allow it to change the desires of its hearers.
This is an excerpt from chapter 9 of “What Can Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding” by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2023).
In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.