1. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  2. 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.
  3. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  4. We assert, we herald, the truth about God becoming King of the world in and through Jesus of Nazareth alone. It is our public announcement.
  5. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  6. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  7. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  8. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  9. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  10. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  11. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  12. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.