1. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  2. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  3. When you see the year ending, thank the Lord, because he had led you into this cycle of years.
  4. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  5. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  6. 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. 
  7. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  8. Take courage, you who were lost: Jesus comes to seek and save that which is lost. Ye sick, return to health: Christ comes to heal the contrite of heart with the balm of his mercy. Rejoice, all you who desire great things: the Son of God comes down to you that he may make you the co-heirs of his kingdom.
  9. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  10. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.