1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  4. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  5. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  6. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  7. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  8. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  9. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  10. 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.
  11. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  12. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!