1. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
  2. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  3. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  4. This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  5. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
  6. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  7. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  8. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  9. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  10. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  11. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.