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. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  6. 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.”
  7. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  8. 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.
  9. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  10. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  11. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  12. 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.