1. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  2. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  3. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  4. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  5. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  6. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.
  7. The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.
  8. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  9. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  10. Paul has zero patience for the gospel of God to be called into question, especially when the ones questioning it are the ones who should’ve known better.
  11. There is no justification by the works of the law