1. The church is called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Where is that message found? In every blade of grass, on every page of Scripture.
  2. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  3. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  4. Your champion steps forward.
  5. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  6. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  7. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  8. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  9. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  10. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  11. One way or another, Rod always found a way to bring whatever story he was telling back to the gospel and God's grace in Christ.
  12. Jesus will lead us through the deep waters onto the dry land of that celestial shore, where he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.