1. 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.
  2. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  3. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  4. 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.
  5. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  6. My goal here isn’t to selfishly reflect on all the reasons I will miss Rod because I know that if you are reading this, you may miss this man, too.
  7. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  8. This feast is the Gospel, “the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”
  9. In this article Amy Mantravadi give a short but helpful summary of the differences in Lutheran and Reformed thought regarding assurance.
  10. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  11. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  12. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.