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. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  4. For Paul, the hope of the resurrection was the ultimate antidote whenever his circumstances tempted him to despair or to "lose heart."
  5. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  6. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  7. 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.
  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. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  10. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  11. 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.
  12. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.