1. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  2. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  3. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  4. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  5. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  6. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  7. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  8. Toy Story is indeed a Christmas story.
  9. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  10. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  11. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  12. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.