Death of Christ (220)
  1. Jesus never promised me a World Series championship. He never promised that my children would always succeed or that life would go according to plan. He promised something better.
  2. Faithful preachers should remain steadfast in the biblical categories and terminology and preach the reality of death.
  3. When the enemies of your faith surround you, don’t look to your own wits and wisdom.
  4. The wicked emperor, Andronikos, thought he could manipulate a human prophecy in order to save his kingdom. If only he understood which blood saves!
  5. Job needs a savior, and he knows it. And in Jesus, he gets one.
  6. Spy Wednesday asks us to look inward. It's the day the liturgical calendar acknowledges what we already know: we are not the best version of ourselves.
  7. The reasoning was always the same. The gods were angry. The gods were hungry. The gods required payment.
  8. People everywhere, every day, feel God’s wrath—and not as merely an afterlife threat but as a present reality.
  9. His provision always flows downward, furnishing and filling us with his grace and truth right where we are.
  10. The Christian answer to death is not a disembodied app, but a bodily resurrection.
  11. You’re permitted to call on “Our Father, who art in heaven” at all hours of the day and night with whatever you like.
  12. The thief is the prophetic picture of all of us, staring hopelessly hopeful at the Son of God, begging to hear the same words.
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