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. For Paul, the hope of the resurrection was the ultimate antidote whenever his circumstances tempted him to despair or to "lose heart."
  5. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  6. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  7. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  8. 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.
  9. One way or another, Rod always found a way to bring whatever story he was telling back to the gospel and God's grace in Christ.
  10. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  11. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  12. How’s your ticker?