1. My goal here isn’t to selfishly reflect on all the reasons I will miss Rod because I know that if you are reading this, you may miss this man, too.
  2. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  3. When the Savior gets on our trail, nothing, not even the grave and hell, can stop him.
  4. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  8. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  9. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  10. How’s your ticker?
  11. When you see the year ending, thank the Lord, because he had led you into this cycle of years.
  12. The Jews were living the script for a Western movie when Jesus showed up. The enemies of God were running the town