1. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  2. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  3. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  4. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
  5. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
  6. Moses is no Jesus but he, like us, is saved by Him. The law cannot enter the promised land, and yet the true and greater promised land is occupied by nothing but lawbreakers.
  7. It’s God’s power that we are dealing with here that is made perfect in weakness, not ours. God’s power is made perfect in the weakness of the cross.
  8. There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
  9. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  10. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the second installment of that series.
  11. When the Law is viewed in its true light, when its "glory" is revealed, it is found to do nothing more than to kill man and sink him into condemnation.
  12. That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.