1. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  2. 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.
  3. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  4. An Anglo-Saxon poem gives fresh insight to the cross
  5. How the pumpkin patch has a lot to teach us about the love and work of Christ
  6. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  7. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  8. Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
  9. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  10. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  11. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.