1. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  2. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  3. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  4. Jesus remakes us, rebuilds us, and resurrects us so the demons that hide in the cracks cannot get ahold of us, the devil cannot break us, and hell will never know us.
  5. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  6. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  7. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
  8. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  9. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  10. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.