1. God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.
  2. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  3. Attempting to escape the errors of medieval Catholic thinking, Agricola ended up making the same mistake of conflating law and gospel.
  4. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  5. This week, we’ll take a closer look at what it means to have a God who remembers us. Today, 1517 Scholar in Residence Chad Bird first introduces the Old Testament meaning behind the word and the Hebrew way of remembering.
  6. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  7. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  8. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  9. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.
  10. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  11. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  12. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.