1. Elsewhere makes promises that can’t be kept, but God’s promises are secure, reliable, and certain.
  2. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  3. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  4. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  5. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  6. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  7. The church is called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Where is that message found? In every blade of grass, on every page of Scripture.
  8. 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.
  9. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  10. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  11. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.