1. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  2. Psalm 8 is a trailer for the entire biblical movie, and the entire biblical movie centers on Christ.
  3. If Jesus shows up and you are a sinner, ‘tis more blessed to receive than to give
  4. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  5. Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
  6. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  7. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  8. Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.
  9. 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
  10. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).