1. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  2. To “trust in God in trial” means we fight our battles by kneeling and praying to “the Holy One of Israel,” who works out our deliverance by himself.
  3. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  4. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  5. On Saturday, July 16, Luke Gabriel Bird died in a hiking accident in Chile. He was a midshipman in the United States Naval Academy. He is our son. Here are some reflections on his life, his faith, and his Lord.
  6. Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
  7. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  8. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  9. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  10. 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.
  11. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.