Faith (24)
  1. Jacob is given the gospel afresh right when he needed it and it is because of this gospel that his faith is stirred up anew.
  2. The mere fact of “having faith” or saying that “you believe” is not as important as in what or in whom your faith rests.
  3. True religion or true faith is heavenly. It understands that mankind’s only hope has to come from outside of itself.
  4. If your faith is rooted in the gospel of Zion, in the good news of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection on your behalf, you are already a member of the “heavenly Jerusalem”
  5. This week we are interviewing our friend, Pastor Brad Gray about his book He's one of the special Baptists who publish articles and books with 1517.
  6. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  7. The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.
  8. Jesus’s story in Luke 16 draws definitive attention to whom God helps — namely, God always comes close in order to help those who cannot help themselves.
  9. Christ shows up in the middle of our storms and our nightmares. That’s where he sets up shop.
  10. This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  11. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  12. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
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