1. Any message other than "Christ for you" is not good news.
  2. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  3. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
  4. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  5. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  6. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  7. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  8. It is of the utmost importance that pastors teach their congregation that through faith in Jesus Christ, they are fortified against the machinations of the adversary.
  9. 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.
  10. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  11. I’ve experienced firsthand the promise that God never leaves a congregation empty-handed.
  12. In the tumultuous sea of information, opinions, and ideologies that break over us each day, we hold fast to the anchor of our faith—Jesus, the true prophet.