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. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  3. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  4. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
  5. Anyone could tell he enjoyed teaching theology and loved his students.
  6. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  7. Even at Lewis’ graveside, Havard was a faithful friend, and a friend full of faith in Christ, confessing his hope in the resurrection.
  8. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  9. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  10. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  11. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.