1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  4. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  5. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  6. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  7. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  8. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  9. 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.
  10. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  11. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  12. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.