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. 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.
  3. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  8. This article is written by guest contributor, Aaron Boerst.
  9. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”
  10. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  11. The death and resurrection did indeed really happen. They are accomplished historical facts, and by them, so too is the forgiveness of our sins and justification before God.
  12. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.