1. Now more than ever, it's good to take a closer look at the Christian confession about evil, pain, and suffering.
  2. God uses the fifth commandment to protect us from selfishness, prevent us from only thinking about our needs, and to drive us to Christ and our neighbors.
  3. Sin is driven by disordered love, and it is love in this sense that leads to all the pain and suffering in the world.
  4. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
  5. That unremarkable trip to the zoo on September 28, 1931, was the last in a long line of experiences that brought C.S. Lewis (Jack) back to the faith.
  6. What does it mean that holding to Jesus’ teaching will set us free? Which teaching? What will we be set free from?
  7. Maybe for the first time you can begin to receive creation as a gift, a sheer gift from God’s hands. And who knows what might happen in the power of this grace? All possibilities are open.
  8. What doesn’t kill you might actually be a cheapened law that leaves wiggle room and space in the door for your old man to stick his foot in and get in on the work of Christ.
  9. This is an excerpt from “Crucifying Religion” written by Donavon Riley (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  10. This is an excerpt from the book, “Paul and the Resurrection” written by Joshua Pagán (1517 Publishing, 2020).
  11. "Faith Alone, The Heart of Everything" written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson, is now available for purchase from 1517 Publishing
  12. Jesus is our confidence because he reveals truth from falsehood, right from wrong, and reality from appearance, so that we may rely on him for our every need of body, soul, and mind.