1. In Israel today, it's still possible to witness the same scene the disciples saw 2000 years ago when the Bedouin shepherds bring their flocks home from various pastures at the end of the day.
  2. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  3. When Jesus appeared again to his disciples on that first Easter evening and again a week later with Thomas and the Emmaus disciples, what did Jesus show them? His hands.
  4. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  5. 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.”
  6. 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.
  7. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  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. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.