1. This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Your God is Too Glorious: Finding God in the Most Unexpected Places by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  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. Elsewhere makes promises that can’t be kept, but God’s promises are secure, reliable, and certain.
  6. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  7. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  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. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  10. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  11. 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.
  12. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.