1. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  2. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  3. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  4. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.
  5. The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.
  6. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  7. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  8. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  9. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  10. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  11. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  12. How’s your ticker?