1. We ache in eager anticipation as we see Christ in action and as we take in the snapshots of his life, death, and resurrection.
  2. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  3. Our God is a living God and he listens to our cries for help.
  4. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  5. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  6. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  7. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  8. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
  9. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  10. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.