1. Jesus’s freedom is different. It isn’t meant to indicate that the moorings which tether men and women to what is true, beautiful, and holy are unfastened, liberating them to do anything they please.
  2. The upright, in whom the law has exercised its work, when they feel their sickness and weakness, say: God will help me; I trust in him; I build upon him; he is my rock and hope.
  3. The grass withered for them too, but they held on to God’s Word. They knew that was eternal, so they lived in it. They lived in his forgiveness.
  4. The Second Edition of “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory?” by Steven Hein is now available from 1517 Publishing.
  5. Despite his trust in empiricism, throughout his life, Locke never entirely let go of the inspired Scriptures—or perhaps more accurately, the Scriptures never let go of him.
  6. It turns out that when Elijah battled depression, God sent someone to just be with him. To comfort him.
  7. What God created, God will grow. We don’t add a few stitches onto his creation.
  8. Green is the color for “ordinary time” in the liturgical church year. It's the regular time of year that always gets overshadowed by other seasons such as Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter.
  9. The title “peacemakers” is not ours except as we tell and retell his peacemaking story.
  10. Faith is a living, bold trust in God’s grace, so certain of God’s favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
  11. God’s love is axiomatic; it just is. It’s a truism without a logical explanation.
  12. We can not give our Heavenly Father anything that will make him love us more or less. He gives and we receive.