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. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  4. The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
  5. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  6. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  7. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  8. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  9. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  10. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.