1. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
  2. The God who abundantly restores is still in the business of total restoration, even today. Even now the God of heaven restores dead sinners to life.
  3. Our Judge (the one who can condemn us) has become our Advocate (the one who doesn’t condemn us) because he is also our Substitute (the one who takes our condemnation).
  4. False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
  5. Sometimes it’s important to go far away to learn of holy places back home.
  6. When we own up to our sin, our Father is not scandalized, and his response is not to reconsider his calling us.
  7. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.
  8. Excerpt #3 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  9. Excerpt #2 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  10. Excerpt #1 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  11. The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
  12. You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.