1. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  2. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  3. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  4. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  5. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  6. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  7. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  8. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
  9. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  10. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  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