1. 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.
  2. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  3. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  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. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  7. 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.
  8. I’ve experienced firsthand the promise that God never leaves a congregation empty-handed.
  9. God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.
  10. While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
  11. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  12. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.