1. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  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. For Paul, the hope of the resurrection was the ultimate antidote whenever his circumstances tempted him to despair or to "lose heart."
  4. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  5. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  6. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  7. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  8. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  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. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  11. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  12. One way or another, Rod always found a way to bring whatever story he was telling back to the gospel and God's grace in Christ.