1. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  2. One way or another, Rod always found a way to bring whatever story he was telling back to the gospel and God's grace in Christ.
  3. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  4. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.
  5. 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.
  6. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  7. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  8. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  9. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  10. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  11. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?