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. The lack of history surrounding Psalm 130 allows it to endure as universally appealing even for our seasons of hopelessness and despair when we’re in “the depths.”
  3. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  4. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  5. 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.
  6. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  7. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  8. 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.
  9. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  10. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  11. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.