1. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  2. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  3. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.
  4. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  5. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  6. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  7. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
  8. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  9. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  10. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
  11. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  12. 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.