1. 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.
  2. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  3. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  4. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  5. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  6. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  7. 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.
  8. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  9. 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.
  10. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  11. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.