1. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  2. 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).
  3. The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
  4. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  5. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  6. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  7. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  8. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  9. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  10. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  11. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  12. With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying.