1. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  2. This is an excerpt from “All Charges Dropped! Devotional Narratives from Earthly Courtrooms to the Throne of Grace,” written by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2022).
  3. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  4. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  5. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  6. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  7. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  8. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  9. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  10. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  11. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.