1. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  2. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  3. Christ's resurrection does not merely negate the bitterness of sin; it changes it into a source of divine sweetness, embodying the promise of a new life for us and a restored existence overshadowed by heavenly hope.
  4. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  5. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  6. In an autobiographical telling, Gretchen Ronnevik shares the fate of two different fathers and the hope she has in Christ.
  7. There is no justification by the works of the law
  8. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  9. Any message other than "Christ for you" is not good news.
  10. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  11. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise