1. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  2. 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.
  3. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  4. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  5. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  6. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  7. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  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. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  10. 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.
  11. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  12. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.