1. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  2. How’s your ticker?
  3. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  4. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  5. 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.
  6. I’ve experienced firsthand the promise that God never leaves a congregation empty-handed.
  7. God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.
  8. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
  9. The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
  10. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.