1. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  2. We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.
  3. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  4. 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.
  5. Christ's resurrection does not merely negate the bitterness of sin; it changes it into a source of divine sweetness, embodying the promise of a new life for us and a restored existence overshadowed by heavenly hope.
  6. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  7. When the Savior gets on our trail, nothing, not even the grave and hell, can stop him.
  8. Jesus will lead us through the deep waters onto the dry land of that celestial shore, where he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.
  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. Anderson encourages us to meditate upon the ways that Christ truly is the end of our exploring.
  11. Theology and history go hand in hand in the real person of Jesus Christ, making the truth of the Gospels profoundly human and powerfully meaningful.
  12. How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?