1. Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
  2. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  3. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  4. Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.
  5. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord.
  6. Armed with great analogies, airtight logic, and razor sharp wit, Lewis keeps you spellbound from one chapter to another as you find yourself going “further up and further in.”
  7. I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
  8. If you sit where Joseph sits, then you also face the choice that Joseph faced. Do you respond with vengeance?
  9. This is an excerpt from “A Shepherd’s Letter” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2022).
  10. This book is not in your hands so that we can simply commiserate with each other’s difficulties. It is meant to pierce your sin-darkened night with the light of God’s Word.
  11. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  12. Each email entry in The Withertongue Emails is intended to compel the reader to stop and think about their pastor, themselves, and their churches.