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. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  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. 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.
  5. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  6. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  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. 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. 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. Christ's resurrection does not merely negate the bitterness of sin; it changes it into a source of divine sweetness, embodying the promise of a new life for us and a restored existence overshadowed by heavenly hope.
  12. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.