1. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  2. There is power in the name of Jesus, and we love to manipulate power for our own ends.
  3. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  4. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
  5. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  6. Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does.
  7. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the fourth installment of that series.
  8. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
  9. 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.
  10. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the first installment of that series.
  11. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  12. If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.