1. The Lion of Judah, Christ the King, Jesus of Nazareth, will not be away from us for one night.
  2. This great victory, the true defeat of death, I receive not by my thinking, willing, or working, but simply by believing.
  3. In Christ, this world’s never-children are his always-children, because he isn’t a God of death, after all.
  4. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  5. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  6. My goal here isn’t to selfishly reflect on all the reasons I will miss Rod because I know that if you are reading this, you may miss this man, too.
  7. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  8. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  9. This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  10. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  11. If it’s all a fiction spun by disappointed disciples, if it’s a mere symbol for the idea of an inner awakening, if it’s not a fact that Christ has been raised, then our grief and loss have no end, and we have no hope.
  12. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
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