1. Scent plays an important role in our memories and the story of Scripture
  2. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  3. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  4. Of all the Inklings, Williams was certainly the most enigmatic. His mind and body were always moving.
  5. Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
  6. Dyson demonstrated a pious persistence with Lewis, something we can emulate in our own friendships and conversations.
  7. 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.
  8. This week, we’ll take a closer look at what it means to have a God who remembers us. Today, 1517 Scholar in Residence Chad Bird first introduces the Old Testament meaning behind the word and the Hebrew way of remembering.
  9. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  10. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  11. Jesus’s story in Luke 16 draws definitive attention to whom God helps — namely, God always comes close in order to help those who cannot help themselves.