1. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  2. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  3. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  4. How’s your ticker?
  5. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  6. 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.
  7. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  8. I’ve experienced firsthand the promise that God never leaves a congregation empty-handed.
  9. God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.
  10. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  11. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  12. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.