1. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  2. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  3. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.
  4. 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.
  5. This week we are taking a closer look at 1 Corinthians 15:14-19 and what we lose if Christ has not been raised from the dead.
  6. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  7. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  8. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  9. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  10. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  11. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  12. I can guarantee you that when Paul was overtaken by the Spirit and inspired to write these words, he did not have in mind your local school's boys' basketball tournament.