1. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  2. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  3. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  4. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  5. 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.
  6. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  7. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  8. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  9. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  10. The good news of the Gospel is Jesus has come, and Jesus will come again.
  11. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  12. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.