1. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  2. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  3. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  4. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
  5. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  6. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  7. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  8. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  9. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.