1. 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).
  2. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  3. There is power in the name of Jesus, and we love to manipulate power for our own ends.
  4. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  5. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  6. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  7. Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.
  8. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord.
  9. Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does.
  10. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  11. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  12. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.