1. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  2. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  3. There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
  4. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  5. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  6. 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.
  7. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  8. 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.
  9. There is comfort and joy that while one is now at rest from his labors, the Lord of the church continues to ensure that the good seed is sown, watered, and cared for.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.