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. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  7. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  8. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  9. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  10. This feast is the Gospel, “the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”
  11. In this article Amy Mantravadi give a short but helpful summary of the differences in Lutheran and Reformed thought regarding assurance.