1. Any message other than "Christ for you" is not good news.
  2. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  3. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  4. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
  5. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  6. The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.
  7. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  8. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  9. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  10. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  11. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.