1. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  2. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  3. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  4. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  5. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  6. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  7. Toy Story is indeed a Christmas story.
  8. The good news of the Gospel is Jesus has come, and Jesus will come again.
  9. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  10. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  11. The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
  12. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?