1. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  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. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  5. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  6. Regardless of background or beliefs, every American I talk to seems on edge, as if the sky were about to fall. But the sky is not falling.
  7. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  8. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  9. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  10. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  11. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  12. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.