1. The opponents of Father Brown thought that debunking the fake resurrection of Father Brown would discredit the good news of Christ's resurrection. The truth, however, is the other way around.
  2. Regardless of background or beliefs, every American I talk to seems on edge, as if the sky were about to fall. But the sky is not falling.
  3. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  4. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  5. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  6. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  7. 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.
  8. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  9. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  10. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  11. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  12. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.