1. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  2. 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.
  3. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  4. We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.
  5. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  6. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  7. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
  8. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  9. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  10. My goal here isn’t to selfishly reflect on all the reasons I will miss Rod because I know that if you are reading this, you may miss this man, too.
  11. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.
  12. The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.