1. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  2. 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."
  3. The nefarious thing about idolatry is that just about anything can become your idol: career, family, fame, wealth, status, spouse, you name it, any good thing can become a ‘god-thing” with ease. 
  4. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  5. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  6. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  7. If Jesus shows up and you are a sinner, ‘tis more blessed to receive than to give
  8. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  9. When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
  10. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  11. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  12. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.