1. This day and its meaning provided the opportunity for an anonymous author to write a poem for Sheer Thursday about Judas' betrayal of Jesus.
  2. Jesus has gone ahead of you on the road, and promises to be with you still.
  3. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  4. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  5. We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.
  6. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
  7. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  8. Christ's resurrection does not merely negate the bitterness of sin; it changes it into a source of divine sweetness, embodying the promise of a new life for us and a restored existence overshadowed by heavenly hope.
  9. My goal here isn’t to selfishly reflect on all the reasons I will miss Rod because I know that if you are reading this, you may miss this man, too.
  10. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  11. When the Savior gets on our trail, nothing, not even the grave and hell, can stop him.
  12. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.