1. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  2. The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.
  3. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  4. The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
  5. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  6. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  7. 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
  8. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  9. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  10. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  11. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.