1. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  2. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  3. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  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. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  6. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  7. Jesus will lead us through the deep waters onto the dry land of that celestial shore, where he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.
  8. 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.
  9. Anderson encourages us to meditate upon the ways that Christ truly is the end of our exploring.
  10. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  11. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.