1. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  2. When Jesus appeared again to his disciples on that first Easter evening and again a week later with Thomas and the Emmaus disciples, what did Jesus show them? His hands.
  3. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  4. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  5. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  6. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  7. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  8. This is an excerpt from “Encouragement for Motherhood, Devotional Writings on the Work of Christ” edited by Katie Koplin (1517 Publishing, 2024) available for purchase today.
  9. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  10. For Paul, the hope of the resurrection was the ultimate antidote whenever his circumstances tempted him to despair or to "lose heart."
  11. This article is written by guest contributor, Aaron Boerst.
  12. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”