1. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  2. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  3. We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.
  4. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  5. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  6. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  7. In the Word, you find peace. It proclaims peace first between you and God because of Jesus. That empowers you to deal peacefully with others and brings you peace of mind.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  11. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  12. How’s your ticker?