1. 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).
  2. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  3. Advent is one big answer to the question of free will in matters of salvation. God is free. Our will is bound.
  4. Desiderius Erasmus and many humanists had for a while held out hope for Luther’s call for reform and many of the reformers were themselves, to some degree, humanists.
  5. We’ve been desperate—and it is a gift of God when we are, when we realize our lost condition!
  6. Kierkegaard attempts to take us through Abraham’s mind as the patriarch prepares to sacrifice his son, his only son, his son whom he loves.