1. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  2. 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.
  3. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  4. Steven Paulson shares the meaning (and grace) found in All Saints Day
  5. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  6. This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  7. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  8. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  9. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  10. 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.
  11. If it’s all a fiction spun by disappointed disciples, if it’s a mere symbol for the idea of an inner awakening, if it’s not a fact that Christ has been raised, then our grief and loss have no end, and we have no hope.