1. Prior sees much of evangelicalism’s imaginary trouble arising from the fact that it emphasizes quick and dramatic conversion experiences and a personally directed relationship with God.
  2. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  3. The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.
  4. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  5. The only way to change the current state of worship songwriting and production is to create something different.
  6. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  7. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  8. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  9. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  10. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  11. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  12. The earliest followers of God sang their faith, which is no different today as we sing of the hope we have in Jesus.