1. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  2. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  3. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  4. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  5. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  6. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  7. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  8. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  9. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  10. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  11. The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.
  12. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.