1. The cross not only stands as the measure of our hatred of God but also as the measure of God’s love for us.
  2. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  3. God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.
  4. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  5. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  6. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  7. 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.
  8. For Paul, the hope of the resurrection was the ultimate antidote whenever his circumstances tempted him to despair or to "lose heart."
  9. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  10. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  11. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  12. 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.