1. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  2. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
  3. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
  4. When properly distinguishing law and gospel in the Word of God, it is important to use the God-given gift and abilities of the imagination as your ears.
  5. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  6. If we believe that ours is truly the greatest story ever told, then we must share that story in creative ways and allow it to change the desires of its hearers.
  7. Below is a compilation of some of our staff and contributor’s recommended reads for this summer (based, of course, on what we are reading). Let us know if you find a book you love!
  8. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  9. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  10. We number our days not according to our timeframe but according to God’s work and his rhythms.
  11. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  12. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.