1. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  2. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  3. 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.
  4. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  5. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
  6. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  7. My goal here isn’t to selfishly reflect on all the reasons I will miss Rod because I know that if you are reading this, you may miss this man, too.
  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. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  10. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  11. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  12. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?