1. 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).
  2. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  3. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  4. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  5. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  6. 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.
  7. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  8. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  9. 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.
  10. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  11. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  12. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.