1. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  2. 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.
  3. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  4. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.
  5. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  6. This week we are taking a closer look at 1 Corinthians 15:14-19 and what we lose if Christ has not been raised from the dead.
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  9. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  10. The gospel's message is the scandalous announcement that Yahweh has stooped to our frame, to where we are.
  11. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  12. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.