1. While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
  2. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
  3. 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.
  4. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  5. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  6. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  7. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  8. 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.
  9. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  10. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  11. If we just say to God, “We don’t get it, please explain,” he will. He will send us a preacher to point us to his words for more clarification.