1. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
  2. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  3. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  4. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  5. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
  6. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
  7. Great things are contained in these seemingly unimportant words: "Behold, your king." Such boundless gifts are brought by this poor and despised king.
  8. If there were ever any doubt about God's commitment to humanity, the incarnation removed that doubt. God became a man forever. And thus he is our brother, our kinsman redeemer, the God who would move heaven and earth to save us.
  9. Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.