1. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  2. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  3. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  4. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023). Now available for purchase.
  5. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  6. 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."
  7. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  8. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  9. It all starts with God; and it all ends with God. He is the alpha and omega of giving and generosity.
  10. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  11. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  12. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.