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. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  3. This is an excerpt from “All Charges Dropped! Devotional Narratives from Earthly Courtrooms to the Throne of Grace,” written by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2022).
  4. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  5. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  6. The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
  7. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  8. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.