1. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  2. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  3. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  4. 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.
  5. In the Reformation, as in the tabernacle, God gave skill, artistry, and craftsmanship to put his Word in images so that through art, his Word would be revealed.
  6. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  7. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  8. For as you pick up the Holy Bible, God’s Word to you and for you in Christ, the words of the prophet Isaiah echo in your ears, "The Word of the Lord Endures Forever."
  9. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  10. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  11. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”