1. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  2. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  3. This article is written by guest contributor, Aaron Boerst.
  4. Defy the world with its “oughts” and “shoulds,” for in Christ, it is finished.
  5. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  6. The death and resurrection did indeed really happen. They are accomplished historical facts, and by them, so too is the forgiveness of our sins and justification before God.
  7. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  8. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  9. 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.
  10. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  11. 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.
  12. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.