Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
How do the words “The righteous shall live by his faith” go from a context of hope in hopelessness to the cornerstone declaration of the chief doctrine of the Christian faith?

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Jesus is the anti-Cain: a giver, not a taker.
This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
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).
Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”
As is often the case in Scripture, creation is about a renewed, restored, and redeemed relationship with the Creator.
At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
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.
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.
The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
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.
What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.