1. 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.
  2. This article is written by guest contributor, Aaron Boerst.
  3. 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.”
  4. Defy the world with its “oughts” and “shoulds,” for in Christ, it is finished.
  5. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  6. The death and resurrection did indeed really happen. They are accomplished historical facts, and by them, so too is the forgiveness of our sins and justification before God.
  7. Regardless of background or beliefs, every American I talk to seems on edge, as if the sky were about to fall. But the sky is not falling.
  8. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  9. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  10. 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.
  11. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  12. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?