Bondage of the Will (40)
  1. Decisionalism expects you to raise yourself through a choice, but Scripture says only Christ raises the dead.
  2. In Christ, you are bound. Bound to mercy. Bound to grace. Bound to a God who won’t let you go. And because of that, you are free—gloriously, joyfully free.
  3. Jesus satisfies, fills, and saves because he is the Son of God, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever.
  4. Luther’s famous treatise contains great consolation for Christians struggling with grace, suffering, and hope.
  5. The addict’s condition speaks a hard truth: that we are all beggars before God, every one of us bent toward the grave.
  6. This is an excerpt from Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation by Amy Mantravadi (1517 Publishing, 2024), pgs. 24-27
  7. Our faith is precisely where Paul puts it, namely, in the blood of Christ.
  8. More certain than death or taxes and more certain than “anything else in all creation” is the fact that God loves you.
  9. Erasmus and the Unintended Reformation
  10. This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  11. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  12. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
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