1. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  2. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  3. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  4. 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.
  5. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  6. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  7. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  8. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  9. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  10. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  11. We may not all be mass-murdering Nazis. But we all have the same root sin that causes the most egregious criminal activity on the face of the earth. We all have the desire to be our own God.