1. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  2. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  3. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  4. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  5. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  6. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  7. Your heavenly Father has not purchased you with gold or with silver but with the most valuable currency in the universe; the blood of God.
  8. Can you imagine Christmas from creation’s point of view?
  9. We still think we can sort own own problems with more money, more education, more resources, more techniques, more, more, more.
  10. Tolkien's hero Tom Bombadil functions to showcase the Gospel
  11. No plot spoilers here just some really Good News
  12. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.