1. This is an excerpt from Chad Bird’s book, Your God is Too Glorious, 2nd Edition
  2. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
  3. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  4. Of all the Inklings, Williams was certainly the most enigmatic. His mind and body were always moving.
  5. This week, we’ll take a closer look at what it means to have a God who remembers us. Today, 1517 Scholar in Residence Chad Bird first introduces the Old Testament meaning behind the word and the Hebrew way of remembering.
  6. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  7. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  8. 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.
  9. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  10. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.
  11. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.