1. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  2. Christ's resurrection does not merely negate the bitterness of sin; it changes it into a source of divine sweetness, embodying the promise of a new life for us and a restored existence overshadowed by heavenly hope.
  3. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  4. Yes, Christmas brings joy, but no less danger
  5. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
  6. 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).
  7. We may not all be mass-murdering Nazis. But we all have the same root sin that causes the most egregious criminal activity on the face of the earth. We all have the desire to be our own God.
  8. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  9. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  10. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  11. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
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