1. We do not live in the greatness of our own deeds. We boast in the greatness of one deed that God himself has done through Jesus Christ on the cross.
  2. For all mankind, the answer is terrifically simple and remains the same: God wants to turn us towards the cross and then turn us back to our neighbors.
  3. In writing City of God, Augustine sought to demonstrate that the events of 410 were but a glimpse of all history.
  4. The reason the mind is endlessly troubled about God predestining everything is the vague generalization. Generalizations are cold as ice, without the warm Christ.
  5. We do not have to endure the pain and suffering of this fallen existence forever, just for a little while.
  6. The acquisition of salvation, the giving of salvation, and the keeping of salvation are entirely dependent upon the Savior himself.
  7. God invites you to confess the skeletons in your closet so that he might bury them in the grave for good.
  8. Our certainty is of Christ, that mighty hero who overcame the Law, sin, death, and all evils.
  9. Christian hope means always hope in God and hope in Christ simultaneously without distinction.
  10. The one true God has revealed himself as the answer to the longings of every human heart. The search has ended. He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Holy, Holy, Holy.
  11. God bestows faith that it should deal not with ordinary things, but with things no human being can master such as death, sin, the world, and Satan.
  12. There is one verse in the Bible that talks about tattoos. In this article, Chad Bird explores the original Hebrew of that verse to see what light it sheds, looks at the verse in context, and discusses what application--if any--this verse has for Christians today.