1. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  2. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  3. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  4. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  5. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  6. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  7. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  8. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.
  9. Christ shows up in the middle of our storms and our nightmares. That’s where he sets up shop.
  10. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  11. This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  12. In the tumultuous sea of information, opinions, and ideologies that break over us each day, we hold fast to the anchor of our faith—Jesus, the true prophet.