1. 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.
  2. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  3. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  4. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  5. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
  6. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  7. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  8. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  9. 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.
  10. Ever Heard of Candlemas?
  11. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  12. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.