1. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  2. Elsewhere makes promises that can’t be kept, but God’s promises are secure, reliable, and certain.
  3. It's easy to have courage when things go well.
  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. 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.
  6. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  7. 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.
  8. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  9. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  10. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  11. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  12. Regardless of background or beliefs, every American I talk to seems on edge, as if the sky were about to fall. But the sky is not falling.