1. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  2. 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).
  3. The giver of life, the source of joy, stands weeping together with the human family as they grieve under the curse of sin.
  4. The only one truly blessed of God, who in himself is God’s incarnate makarios, surrounds himself with a multitude of the accursed, the non-makarios.
  5. We’ve become experts at making deals with God.
  6. Indeed, the law said, “You shall love the Lord your God,” but the law cannot give me such love, nor can it take my hand to grasp on to Christ.