‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”
This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.
Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.

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The real problem with the way we talk about Baptism in particular, and the sacraments at all, is that we are simply afraid of letting God’s Word get us.
These treasures show us that, no matter how well we think we know this poem, there’s always more layers to uncover.
The following is a Question and Answer session with author and pastor Donavon Riley where we talk about his latest book, “Crucifying Religion: How Jesus is the End of Religion”.
Growth and maturity in the Spirit doesn’t look like we think it does. That’s because it’s backward.
It’s no wonder we’re so attached to images; we are one. We are human hyphens between the celestial and the terrestrial.
We are saved by God's grace, apart from our work – so why does obtaining God's wisdom require such work?
The following is an excerpt adapted from, “Human Rights and Human Dignity,” written by John Warwick Montgomery (1517 Publishing, 2016).
The following is an excerpt from “Crucifying Religion” written by Donavon Riley (1517 Publishing, 2019).
All God's fatherly goodness and mercy is concrete and real, born of a virgin, crucified for our trespasses, raised for our justification.
“I love you” is great, as long as whatever commitment I may or may not be intimating is mutually beneficial and causes the least amount of emotional strain to me.
The following is an excerpt from “Crucifying Religion” written by Donavon Riley (1517 Publishing, 2019).
God may be all-powerful, but he has an odd way of showing it. He tends to work his power through weakness, brokenness, even a cross.