1. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  2. Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.
  3. 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
  4. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  5. 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.
  6. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  7. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  8. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  9. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  10. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.