1. In Israel today, it's still possible to witness the same scene the disciples saw 2000 years ago when the Bedouin shepherds bring their flocks home from various pastures at the end of the day.
  2. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  3. When Jesus appeared again to his disciples on that first Easter evening and again a week later with Thomas and the Emmaus disciples, what did Jesus show them? His hands.
  4. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  5. 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.
  6. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”
  7. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  8. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. My goal here isn’t to selfishly reflect on all the reasons I will miss Rod because I know that if you are reading this, you may miss this man, too.
  12. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.