1. The relationship with God through Christ and renewal in his image in Christ cannot be taken away or compromised through suffering.
  2. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  3. St. Patrick was great but only because he was a slave to Christ.
  4. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  5. The opponents of Father Brown thought that debunking the fake resurrection of Father Brown would discredit the good news of Christ's resurrection. The truth, however, is the other way around.
  6. Jesus has gone ahead of you on the road, and promises to be with you still.
  7. Your champion steps forward.
  8. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  9. 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.
  10. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  11. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  12. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.