1. Jesus has gone ahead of you on the road, and promises to be with you still.
  2. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  3. 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.
  4. Your champion steps forward.
  5. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  6. 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.
  7. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  8. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  9. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  10. One way or another, Rod always found a way to bring whatever story he was telling back to the gospel and God's grace in Christ.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.