1. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  2. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  3. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  4. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  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. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  7. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  8. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  9. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  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. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.