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. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  4. In Israel today, it's still possible to witness the same scene the disciples saw 2000 years ago when the Bedouin shepherds bring their flocks home from various pastures at the end of the day.
  5. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  6. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  7. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  8. 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.
  9. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  10. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  11. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.