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. We number our days not according to our timeframe but according to God’s work and his rhythms.
  5. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  6. For almost three years, I have produced a weekly video in the series “Reading the Gospels through Hebrew Eyes.” Here is an index of all the Gospel readings covered so far, with links to their YouTube videos.
  7. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  8. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  9. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  10. The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
  11. After the big, splashy, exciting day of Pentecost in Acts 2, church life faded into the ordinary life of ragtag sinners encountering the God of the cross coming to them in seemingly unawesome ways. What can we learn from this?
  12. That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.