1. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
  2. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  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. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  7. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  8. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  9. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  10. There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
  11. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.