1. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
  2. Our Judge (the one who can condemn us) has become our Advocate (the one who doesn’t condemn us) because he is also our Substitute (the one who takes our condemnation).
  3. This book is not in your hands so that we can simply commiserate with each other’s difficulties. It is meant to pierce your sin-darkened night with the light of God’s Word.
  4. I want the beginning of my funeral to be focused on Jesus, as well as the middle, the end, and every point in between.
  5. Who we are buried with matters. But there is no need to go out and find a dead prophet so you can join him six feet under.
  6. The promise here is that God is present with us in our troubles, issuing commands to save us before we ask. God does not ignore our suffering and cries.
  7. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  8. God is not a preoccupied parent, he’s an invested and interested tender loving Father. He values what perplexes us.
  9. This world of unbearable grief and accidental calamity is being renewed and, soon, will be completely bereft of every pernicious foe.
  10. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.
  11. Excerpt #3 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  12. Excerpt #2 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.