1. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  2. Elsewhere makes promises that can’t be kept, but God’s promises are secure, reliable, and certain.
  3. It's easy to have courage when things go well.
  4. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  5. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  6. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  7. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  8. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  9. 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.
  10. What is faith to believe? The simple words of promise that Jesus Himself gives to us in Scripture: “This is My body. This is My blood.”
  11. This day and its meaning provided the opportunity for an anonymous author to write a poem for Sheer Thursday about Judas' betrayal of Jesus.
  12. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.