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. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  6. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  7. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  8. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  9. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  10. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  11. While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.