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. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  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. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  5. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  6. 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).
  7. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  8. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  9. Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
  10. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  11. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  12. Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.