1. Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.
  2. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  3. This is an excerpt from chapter 1 of “A Shepherd’s Letter: The Faith Once and For All Delivered to the Evangelical Church” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2022).
  4. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  5. 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).
  6. 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).
  7. The legal record of debt for our sin was canceled because Jesus satisfied the legal demands for us by his life, death, and resurrection.
  8. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  9. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  10. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
  11. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.