1. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  2. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  3. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  4. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  5. If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
  6. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  7. We cannot love first. Therefore God comes, takes hold of the heart, and says: "Learn to know me."
  8. Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
  9. This is the patient love of God. He is stubborn about the salvation of sinners. He will not be rushed even if his name is mocked, and the trustworthiness of his promises are called into question.
  10. Excerpt #3 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  11. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  12. Excerpt #2 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.