1. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  2. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  3. Your heavenly Father has not purchased you with gold or with silver but with the most valuable currency in the universe; the blood of God.
  4. Can you imagine Christmas from creation’s point of view?
  5. We still think we can sort own own problems with more money, more education, more resources, more techniques, more, more, more.
  6. Tolkien's hero Tom Bombadil functions to showcase the Gospel
  7. No plot spoilers here just some really Good News
  8. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  9. Prior sees much of evangelicalism’s imaginary trouble arising from the fact that it emphasizes quick and dramatic conversion experiences and a personally directed relationship with God.
  10. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  11. The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.
  12. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.