1. The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
  2. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  3. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  4. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  5. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  6. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  7. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  8. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  9. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  10. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  11. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  12. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.