1. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  2. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  3. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
  4. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  5. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  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. Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
  9. Dyson demonstrated a pious persistence with Lewis, something we can emulate in our own friendships and conversations.
  10. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  11. 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.