1. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  3. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  4. 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).
  5. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  6. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  7. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  8. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  9. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  10. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  11. 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.
  12. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).