1. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  2. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  3. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  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. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  6. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  7. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  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. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  10. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  11. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  12. 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.