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. 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.”
  5. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  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. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  10. We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.
  11. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  12. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.