1. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  2. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  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. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  5. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  6. 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.
  7. Jesus will lead us through the deep waters onto the dry land of that celestial shore, where he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.
  8. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  9. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  10. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  11. This feast is the Gospel, “the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”