1. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  2. 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.
  3. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  4. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  5. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  6. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  7. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
  8. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  9. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  10. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  11. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.