1. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  2. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  3. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  4. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  5. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  6. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  7. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  8. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  9. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.
  10. You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
  11. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  12. From the beginning to the end of his letter, John really wants one thing: for us to be in Jesus.