1. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  2. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  3. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.
  4. If Jesus shows up and you are a sinner, ‘tis more blessed to receive than to give
  5. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  6. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  7. Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
  8. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  9. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  10. Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.
  11. It seems to me that our greatest task is not that of seeking skills and methods whereby we can inject power into the gospel, but simply to beware lest we obscure the power that the gospel is