1. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  2. This article is written by guest contributor, Aaron Boerst.
  3. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”
  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. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  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 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.
  10. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  11. 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.
  12. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.