1. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  2. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  3. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
  4. In the Reformation, as in the tabernacle, God gave skill, artistry, and craftsmanship to put his Word in images so that through art, his Word would be revealed.
  5. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  6. Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.
  7. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  8. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  9. Luther's September Testament not only shaped the reformers’ theology but also was as big an influence on the German language as Shakespeare was for English.
  10. This is an excerpt from chapter 1 of “A Shepherd’s Letter: The Faith Once and For All Delivered to the Evangelical Church” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2022).
  11. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.