1. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  2. Any message other than "Christ for you" is not good news.
  3. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  4. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
  5. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  6. 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.
  7. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  8. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  9. 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.
  10. This is an edited excerpt from the conclusion of The Resurrection Fact: Responding to Modern Critics, edited by John Bombaro and Adam Francisco. (1517 Publishing, 2016).
  11. 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.
  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.