1. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  2. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  3. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  4. 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.
  5. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  6. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  7. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  8. An Anglo-Saxon poem gives fresh insight to the cross
  9. How the pumpkin patch has a lot to teach us about the love and work of Christ
  10. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  11. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.