1. Only by accurately and honestly reporting the views of those with whom we disagree can we then properly address and refute them. This is the approach Solberg has taken.
  2. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  3. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  4. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  5. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  6. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  7. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  8. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  9. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  10. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  11. Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
  12. In the Reformation, as in the tabernacle, God gave skill, artistry, and craftsmanship to put his Word in images so that through art, his Word would be revealed.