1. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  2. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  3. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  4. 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.
  5. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  6. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  7. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  8. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  9. Your champion steps forward.
  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. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.