1. Your champion steps forward.
  2. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  3. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  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 more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  7. 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.
  8. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  9. When the Savior gets on our trail, nothing, not even the grave and hell, can stop him.
  10. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  11. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  12. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?