1. The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
  2. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  3. Eucatastrophe is the coming untrue of all sin, evil, and death. And where that starts is the empty tomb of the risen Jesus.
  4. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  5. When Jesus appeared again to his disciples on that first Easter evening and again a week later with Thomas and the Emmaus disciples, what did Jesus show them? His hands.
  6. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  7. 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.
  8. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  9. 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.
  10. This is an excerpt from “Encouragement for Motherhood, Devotional Writings on the Work of Christ” edited by Katie Koplin (1517 Publishing, 2024) available for purchase today.
  11. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  12. This article is written by guest contributor, Aaron Boerst.