1. Your champion steps forward.
  2. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  3. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  4. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  5. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  6. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  7. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  8. How Leviticus 17 is a key passage for understanding atonement
  9. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  10. It is of the utmost importance that pastors teach their congregation that through faith in Jesus Christ, they are fortified against the machinations of the adversary.
  11. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  12. I’ve experienced firsthand the promise that God never leaves a congregation empty-handed.