1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  4. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  5. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  6. How’s your ticker?
  7. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  8. We still think we can sort own own problems with more money, more education, more resources, more techniques, more, more, more.
  9. Rick Ritchie gives a brief summary on the importance of Plato’s thought in Christianity
  10. There is no justification by the works of the law
  11. Tolkien's hero Tom Bombadil functions to showcase the Gospel