1. How the pumpkin patch has a lot to teach us about the love and work of Christ
  2. This is an excerpt from Chad Bird’s book, Your God is Too Glorious, 2nd Edition
  3. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  4. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  5. Of all the Inklings, Williams was certainly the most enigmatic. His mind and body were always moving.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  9. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  10. 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.
  11. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.