1. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  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. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  4. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  5. 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.
  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. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  11. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  12. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.