1. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  2. Your champion steps forward.
  3. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  4. 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.
  5. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  6. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  7. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  8. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
  9. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  10. 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.
  11. In the Word, you find peace. It proclaims peace first between you and God because of Jesus. That empowers you to deal peacefully with others and brings you peace of mind.
  12. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.